Re: [ck] [PATCH] dynamic-tick patch modified for SMP

Con Kolivas
2005-08-13T06:52:23Z

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:35, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:19, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Here's finally the SMP changes that I had promised. The patch
> > breaks the earlier restriction that all CPUs have to be idle before
> > cutting of timers and now allows each idle CPU to skip ticks independent
> > of others. The patch is against 2.6.13-rc6 and applies on top of Con's
> > patch maintained here:
>
> Great! Thanks.

I'm sorry to say this doesn't appear to skip any ticks on my single P4 with
SMP/SMT enabled.

Con