From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964905AbVHaRjx (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:39:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964906AbVHaRjx (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:39:53 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:40328 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964905AbVHaRjw (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:39:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:09:18 +0530 From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri To: Christopher Friesen Cc: Lee Revell , linux-kernel , Con Kolivas Subject: Re: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan? Message-ID: <20050831173918.GA6713@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: vatsa@in.ibm.com References: <1125354385.4598.79.camel@mindpipe> <43138F3B.7010704@nortel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43138F3B.7010704@nortel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:43:45PM +0000, Christopher Friesen wrote: > 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? Hmm ..I dont see any event queues being managed by dyn-tick patch. Are you referring to some old version which I havent seen perhaps? If so, what were those event queues used for? -- Thanks and Regards, Srivatsa Vaddagiri, Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Labs, Bangalore, INDIA - 560017