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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tickless and HZ=1000 throughput advantage?
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:55:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090919165501.65d77294@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6278d2220909190747n62f7036dj2e5231fcdc4730fb@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:47:24 +0100
Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On tickless kernels, is the general consensus that for non-embedded
> systems, selecting HZ=1000 gives slightly more throughput in
> particular situations than HZ=100 or 250, due to finer timer
> intervals/granularity?

it's not about throughput. It's about latency for some things....
although now that select/poll and co use hrtimers it's not as critical
anymore.

the HZ timers aren't used much for anything time-critical nowadays.

-- 
Arjan van de Ven 	Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-19 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-19 14:47 tickless and HZ=1000 throughput advantage? Daniel J Blueman
2009-09-19 14:55 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2009-09-19 17:50   ` Daniel J Blueman
2009-09-19 23:12     ` Ben Nizette
2009-09-20  7:34       ` Tim Blechmann
2009-09-20  7:40         ` Arjan van de Ven

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