Re: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan?

From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Date: Wed Aug 31 2005 - 05:54:15 EST


On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:34:03PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Well it seems like the next_timer_interrupt is something like 400
> jiffies away and RCU code waits for completion for example in the
> network code.

I had a patch to fix the problem of "RCU grace period extended
because of sleeping idle CPUs". I had posted the patch here:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111556608901657&w=2

Will send out this patch against latest tree for Andrew to pick it.

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Thanks and Regards,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Labs,
Bangalore, INDIA - 560017
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