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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de, Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	linux@dominikbrodowski.de, David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	paulus@samba.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, jimix@us.ibm.com,
	keith maanthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>, greg kh <greg@kroah.com>,
	Patricia Gaughen <gone@us.ibm.com>,
	Chris McDermott <lcm@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday core subsystem (v.A0)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:12:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915091232.GA22158@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4147F774.6000800@mvista.com>

> I really think a tickless system, for other than UML systems, is a loosing 
> thing.  The accounting overhead on context switch (which increases as the 

You can run the accounting independently at much lower frequency (10ms is
perfectly fine as 2.4 has proven - i suspect even lower would be ok too) 
IMHO it should be a sysctl so that users can do a trade off between
power consumption and accounting accuracy.

And there is one important special that doesn't need any accounting
for user space at all: the idle loop. 
It still needs some way to account interrupts, but that could be done
in do_IRQ or also do with rather low frequency. 

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-15  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-02 21:07 [RFC] New Time of day proposal (updated 9/2/04) john stultz
2004-09-02 21:09 ` [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday core subsystem (v.A0) john stultz
2004-09-02 21:11   ` [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday i386 hooks (v.A0) john stultz
2004-09-02 21:12     ` [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday i386 timesources (v.A0) john stultz
2004-09-03  1:44     ` [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday i386 hooks (v.A0) George Anzinger
2004-09-03  2:06       ` john stultz
2004-09-03  8:07       ` Ulrich Windl
2004-09-03 18:09         ` George Anzinger
2004-09-02 22:19   ` [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday core subsystem (v.A0) Christoph Lameter
2004-09-02 22:28     ` john stultz
2004-09-02 22:42       ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-02 23:14         ` john stultz
2004-09-02 23:39           ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-03  0:07             ` john stultz
2004-09-03  0:47               ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-03  1:30                 ` john stultz
2004-09-03  7:43                   ` George Anzinger
2004-09-03 19:32                     ` john stultz
2004-09-03 16:18                   ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-03 21:00                     ` john stultz
2004-09-03 22:04                       ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-03 23:00                         ` john stultz
2004-09-04  0:11                           ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-03  1:39   ` George Anzinger
2004-09-03  1:58     ` john stultz
2004-09-03  6:42     ` Albert Cahalan
2004-09-03  7:24       ` George Anzinger
2004-09-03 19:27         ` john stultz
2004-09-03 22:10           ` George Anzinger
2004-09-03 23:32             ` john stultz
2004-09-04  0:02               ` George Anzinger
2004-09-08 18:07                 ` john stultz
2004-09-09  0:08                   ` George Anzinger
2004-09-09  0:51                     ` john stultz
2004-09-09  3:14                       ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-09  3:32                         ` john stultz
2004-09-09  4:31                           ` George Anzinger
2004-09-09  6:37                             ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-09  8:09                               ` George Anzinger
2004-09-09 19:07                             ` john stultz
2004-09-09 20:49                               ` George Anzinger
2004-09-13 21:29                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-13 22:25                                   ` john stultz
2004-09-13 22:45                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-14  6:53                                       ` Ulrich Windl
2004-09-14 17:49                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-15  0:57                                       ` George Anzinger
2004-09-15  3:32                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-15  8:04                                           ` George Anzinger
2004-09-15  8:54                                             ` Dominik Brodowski
2004-09-15 17:54                                               ` George Anzinger
2004-09-15  9:12                                             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-09-15 15:46                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-15 18:00                                               ` George Anzinger
2004-09-15 18:28                                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-15  6:46                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-15 16:32                                           ` john stultz
2004-09-15 16:46                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-15 17:13                                               ` john stultz
2004-09-15 17:30                                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-15 18:48                                                   ` john stultz
2004-09-15 19:58                                                     ` George Anzinger
2004-09-15 20:20                                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-16  7:02                                                     ` Ulrich Windl
2004-09-03 19:18       ` john stultz
2004-09-02 22:09 ` [RFC] New Time of day proposal (updated 9/2/04) Christoph Lameter
2004-09-02 22:22   ` john stultz
2004-09-02 22:47     ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-03  9:54 ` Dominik Brodowski
2004-09-03 19:41   ` john stultz
2004-09-03 20:26     ` Dominik Brodowski
2004-09-03 21:05       ` john stultz
2004-09-06  6:26       ` Ulrich Windl
2004-09-06 11:56         ` Alan Cox
2004-09-07 16:14         ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-03 15:17 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-03 20:11   ` john stultz
2004-09-04 13:00     ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-07 16:10       ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-07 18:24         ` George Anzinger
2004-09-07 20:55           ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-07 21:42             ` George Anzinger
2004-09-08  6:26           ` Ulrich Windl
2004-09-08 18:25       ` john stultz
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     [not found] ` <1094224071.431.7758.camel@cube>
2004-09-06  6:08   ` [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday core subsystem (v.A0) Ulrich Windl
2004-09-12 17:11     ` Albert Cahalan

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