Re: [PATCH] i386 No Idle HZ aka dynticks 051217

From: Con Kolivas
Date: Sun Dec 18 2005 - 10:22:42 EST


On Monday 19 December 2005 02:19, Con Kolivas wrote:
> Here is yet another updated version of the dynticks code.
>
> Changes:
>
> Numerous cleanups, microoptimisations and locking improvements.
>
> One bugfix for the next tick accounting used in early_dyn_reprogram
>
> I've yet to find the cause for grossly high cpu accounting on SMP. I'd
> appreciate any help in this area as it's the last showstopper for this
> code.
>
> Obvious power savings are evident on uniprocessor now in on/off comparisons
> using pmstats.

That would be dynticks-051218 I mean, sorry.

Cheers,
Con

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