Re: dynamic-hz

From: john stultz
Date: Mon Dec 13 2004 - 15:02:18 EST


On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 03:08, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:43:21AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Doing lot less per timer tick is not going to help much... You cpu
>
> I also doubt we can do significantly less per timer tick.

Well, I'd like see the timeofday timekeeping work reduced so we don't do
it every tick. Instead it would become a scheduled event that goes off
every second or so.

thanks
-john

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