Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt.

Tony Lindgren
2005-05-18T20:42:34Z

* Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> [050518 12:06]:
> On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 20:50 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Please don't do this, CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ patches are better solution,
> > and they worked okay last time I tried them.
>
> Last time the dynamic tick patches were posted, you reported they worked
> fine. The next question is, when do they get merged?

Uh, I've been meaning to do some clean-up on the x86 patch, but been
distracted every time I've tried... I'll try to do an updated patch
soon... But meanwhile, I believe the dyn-tick patch works reliably
on all machines if DYN_TICK_USE_APIC is not set in Kconfig.

Tony