Re: Dynamic ticks make system jerking

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Jun 30 2007 - 15:09:14 EST



* Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I found the problem, it had only indirectly to do with nohz. I didn't
> acknowledge the serial interrupt but as the timer and the serial need
> the same acknowledgement the serial irq got his ack always when the
> timer triggerd. Up to now that delay didn't stick out as the delay
> was < 10ms.

yeah, that makes sense. Now you've probably got a better serial driver
as a side-effect :-)

Ingo
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