Re: Scheduler regression: Too frequent timer interrupts(?)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 17:02 -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > I'd say that taking interrupt and returning in below 1000nsec is
> > impossible, even on very fast hw.
> 
> Hmmm.... Could it be that CONFIG_NO_HZ caused the timer interrupt to be
> avoided in earlier releases? NO_HZ theory at least is to only schedule
> interrupts when  necessary. So an interrupt is needed at the end of the
> scheduling intervals and not at HZ frequency.

No, NOHZ only works on idle cpus.
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