Re: [PATCH] no-idle-hz aka dynamic ticks-2

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Aug 04 2005 - 15:19:47 EST


Hi!

> > > As promised, here is an updated patch for the newly released 2.6.13-rc5.
> > > Boots and runs fine on P4HT (SMP+SMT kernel) built with gcc 4.0.1.
> >
> > Doesn't compile for me w/ gcc 3.4.4:
>
> Thanks for the report. Tiny change required. Here is a respun patch.


Sorry, it breaks my machine in "interesting" way. Cursor no longer
blinks, sleep 1 takes more than five seconds, ...

Pentium-M in compaq evo n620c notebok, cpufreq active:

pavel@Elf:~$ dmesg | grep tick
dyn-tick: Found suitable timer: tsc
dyn-tick: Registering dynamic tick timer v050610-1
dyn-tick: Maximum ticks to skip limited to 13
dyn-tick: Timer not enabled during boot
pavel@Elf:~$

Ouch, even system time seems to go slower. I'll try setting
DYNTICK_USE_APIC next.
Pavel

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