Re: A proposal - binary

Andi Kleen
2006-08-05T11:57:45Z

> Has anyone measured the performance impact of rutime CLOCK_TICK_RATE
> switching (since this will no longer allow some compile time
> optimizations in jiffies.h)?

SUSE shipped a kernel briefly that had runtime switchable jiffies
and there were some benchmarks done and they didn't show noticeable
slowdown.

But with hr timers it should be pretty much obsolete anyways.

-Andi