Re: NO_HZ: timer interrupt stuck

Andi Kleen
2007-02-23T14:50:40Z

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
>
> BTW, sparc64 always did the trick where the do_timer() work was done
> by one of the per-cpu local timer interrupts, I'm glad the idea gained
> traction generically. :-)))

It was already implemented before for x86-64, but disabled
by default because it ran into some platform issues. The new code
hopefully knows now how to work around them.

-Andi