Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.8-rc6-nohz4

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> > Not with hrtick.
> 
> hrtick? Did we not already try that a couple of years back and 
> it turned out that the overhead of constantly reprogramming a 
> timer via the PCI bus was causing too much of a performance 
> regression?

No, it was simply buggy.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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