From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, chrisw@sous-sol.org,
jeremy@xensource.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: + paravirt-vmi-timer-patches.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:51:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A00BED.6030802@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1168116057.26086.227.camel@imap.mvista.com>
Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:37 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>
>
>>> There is already a dynamic tick (NO_HZ) system in the -mm tree .. Given
>>> that this implementation seems unnecessary. Why do you need another
>>> different system to do this?
>>>
>>>
>> We don't. This was written before the dynamic tick code, and now they
>> need to be merged. Until then, they can safely coexist.
>>
>
> So really this can't go upstream till that merge happens. What's
> preventing you from just directly using NO_HZ without changes?
>
For one thing, the fact that it doesn't account for stolen time. But
mostly because going through the regular PIT / APIC timer paths has a
lot of overhead. So we need a separate timer device, and weaving this
in with the local APIC timer dependency for SMP on i386 requires changes
on top of NO_HZ.
Zach
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-06 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200612152227.kBFMRNuQ002977@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2007-01-06 16:54 ` + paravirt-vmi-timer-patches.patch added to -mm tree Daniel Walker
2007-01-06 20:52 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-01-06 18:06 ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-06 20:37 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-01-06 20:40 ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-06 20:51 ` Zachary Amsden [this message]
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