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From: Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>
To: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tickless and HZ=1000 throughput advantage?
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:12:29 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1253401950.7587.7.camel@ben-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6278d2220909191050l19f2a446r5ccf1907fd963096@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 18:50 +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote:

> Agreed. Do you think there is still a small case for moving to HZ=1000
> (given it's effectively free) in situations like:

Sure HZ=1000 gives you more accurate sleeps, that's kind of the point,
but since when has it been "effectively free"?
http://lwn.net/Articles/331607/

	--Ben.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-19 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-19 14:47 tickless and HZ=1000 throughput advantage? Daniel J Blueman
2009-09-19 14:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-19 17:50   ` Daniel J Blueman
2009-09-19 23:12     ` Ben Nizette [this message]
2009-09-20  7:34       ` Tim Blechmann
2009-09-20  7:40         ` Arjan van de Ven

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