From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964851AbVHaRmi (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:42:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964891AbVHaRmi (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:42:38 -0400 Received: from zctfs063.nortelnetworks.com ([47.164.128.120]:16534 "EHLO zctfs063.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964851AbVHaRmh (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:42:37 -0400 Message-ID: <4315EC05.8060804@nortel.com> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:42:29 -0600 From: "Christopher Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: vatsa@in.ibm.com CC: Lee Revell , linux-kernel , Con Kolivas Subject: Re: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan? References: <1125354385.4598.79.camel@mindpipe> <43138F3B.7010704@nortel.com> <20050831173918.GA6713@in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20050831173918.GA6713@in.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Aug 2005 17:42:31.0236 (UTC) FILETIME=[5CCCA040:01C5AE53] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > 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. > 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? Oh, sorry. I think I got this confused with the tickless patch. Chris