Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:41:47 -0700
From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>,
       randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt.
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* Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> [050518 12:06]:
> On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 20:50 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Please don't do this, CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ patches are better solution,
> > and they worked okay last time I tried them.
> 
> Last time the dynamic tick patches were posted, you reported they worked
> fine.  The next question is, when do they get merged?

Uh, I've been meaning to do some clean-up on the x86 patch, but been
distracted every time I've tried... I'll try to do an updated patch
soon... But meanwhile, I believe the dyn-tick patch works reliably
on all machines if DYN_TICK_USE_APIC is not set in Kconfig.

Tony
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