From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932090AbVH3AGE (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:06:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932093AbVH3AGD (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:06:03 -0400 Received: from mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.201]:2750 "EHLO mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932090AbVH3AGC (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:06:02 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: "Christopher Friesen" Subject: Re: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan? Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:05:06 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Lee Revell , linux-kernel , Srivatsa Vaddagiri References: <1125354385.4598.79.camel@mindpipe> <43138F3B.7010704@nortel.com> In-Reply-To: <43138F3B.7010704@nortel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508301005.07353.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:42, Christopher Friesen wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > The controversy over the introduction of CONFIG_HZ demonstrated the > > urgency of getting a dynamic tick solution merged before 2.6.14. > > > > Anyone care to give a status report? Con, do you feel that the last > > version you posted is ready to go in? > > Last time I got interested in this, the management of the event queues > was still a fairly major performance hit. > > Has this overhead been brought down to reasonable levels? Srivatsa is still working on the smp-aware scalable version, so it's back in the development phase. Cheers, Con