Re: [PATCH] no-idle-hz aka dynamic ticks

Russell King
2005-08-03T08:01:46Z

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:25:26PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> As promised, here is an updated patch for the newly released 2.6.13-rc5.
> Boots and runs fine on P4HT (SMP+SMT kernel) built with gcc 4.0.1.

Please note that ARM already has dyn-tick merged in mainline. If
we're going to be adding dyn-tick for x86, please do it in a way
that we don't create another goddamned awful mess like we did for
the ARM IRQ stuff.

I notice that this version does some things in a different way to
the ARM version - for instance, it doesn't pass the "number of
jiffies to skip" to the arch reprogram function.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core