Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753377Ab3CUVCl (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:02:41 -0400 Received: from a193-30.smtp-out.amazonses.com ([199.255.193.30]:3123 "EHLO a193-30.smtp-out.amazonses.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753297Ab3CUVCk (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:02:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:02:37 +0000 From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@gentwo.org To: Frederic Weisbecker cc: "Paul E. McKenney" , Steven Rostedt , Rob Landley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, josh@joshtriplett.org, zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, khilman@linaro.org, geoff@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] nohz1: Documentation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <0000013d8ec2b268-851c8d6d-c4d1-42fb-b0e1-e1b90de7d911-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <1363636794.15703.32@driftwood> <20130318222548.GG3656@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1363822338.6345.33.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130320235545.GL3637@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <0000013d8db514e4-bf492080-82c9-412a-90b8-54ddc1463e4b-000000@email.amazonses.com> <20130321171518.GW3637@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <0000013d8e3f58ce-0f6ea95f-780a-49c1-a633-5aa0cf3e5040-000000@email.amazonses.com> <20130321185821.GF3637@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <0000013d8e8d24fd-d2931c45-2722-46d1-8b47-2ef11e21096d-000000@email.amazonses.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SES-Outgoing: 199.255.193.30 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 576 Lines: 14 On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > Sure, for now just don't use SCHED_FIFO and you will have a much more > extended dynticks coverage. Ah. Ok. Important information. That would mean no tick for the 2 second intervals between the vm stats etc. Much much better than now where we have a tick 1000 times per second. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/