From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 4.6.4-rt8 Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:31:22 +0200 Message-ID: <20160715153122.GC16938@linutronix.de> References: <20160715114803.GA11606@linutronix.de> <20160715112244.4ff6ecab@gandalf.local.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Thomas Gleixner , LKML , linux-rt-users To: Steven Rostedt Return-path: Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:47401 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751413AbcGOPba (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:31:30 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160715112244.4ff6ecab@gandalf.local.home> Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Steven Rostedt | 2016-07-15 11:22:44 [-0400]: >> Changes since v4.6.4-rt8: >> >> - Import Thomas' timer rework known as "timer: Refactor the timer >> wheel" patch set which made its way into the -TIP tree. With this >> changes we get NOHZ_FULL working. Finally. > >Does this mean that there's no more 1 second tick? >>From tracing there a timer wakeup each second but before we had a wakeup each jiffy because we could not lookup the next timer without taking the base lock which we can do now. However if there is room for improvement to have a wakeup every two or five seconds I am all for it because from RT point of view we should be able to do the same things as the non-RT version. Sebastian