Re: tickless and HZ=1000 throughput advantage?

From: Ben Nizette
Date: Sat Sep 19 2009 - 19:19:23 EST


On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 18:50 +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote:

> Agreed. Do you think there is still a small case for moving to HZ=1000
> (given it's effectively free) in situations like:

Sure HZ=1000 gives you more accurate sleeps, that's kind of the point,
but since when has it been "effectively free"?
http://lwn.net/Articles/331607/

--Ben.

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