From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: haojian.zhuang@gmail.com (Haojian Zhuang) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:34:03 +0800 Subject: Enabling tickless kernel feature in ARM In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Vikram Narayanan wrote: > Hi, > > I want to enable the dynamic tick aka tickless kernel feature for the > BSP which I am developing. What are all the architecture dependent > changes that needs to be done for implementing it. > There was one struct by the name dyn_tick_timer, which is located > under linux/include/asm-arm/mach/time.h file. (which is removed from v > 2.6.27) > Now my question is that, are all the dyn_tick_timer functionalities > are moved to a generic interface somewhere? CONFIG_NO_HZ is used instead. > Are the clock source and clockevent device timers enough to take care > of the tickless feature? There's no relationship between NOHZ and clocksource/clockevent. > > - > Vikram > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >