Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753764AbZIAQqe (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2009 12:46:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750718AbZIAQqd (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2009 12:46:33 -0400 Received: from g1t0027.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.34]:42225 "EHLO g1t0027.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750715AbZIAQqc (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2009 12:46:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4A9D4FE8.2010505@hp.com> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:46:32 -0400 From: jim owens User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Josh Triplett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Anton Blanchard , Tim Pepper , Paul McKenney , John Stultz , Jamey Sharp Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Turn off the tick even when not idle References: <20090901154327.GA10024@feather> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 681 Lines: 14 Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Good idea. Thought so for a long time. Thanks for working on it. Many of > the events can be deferred if nothing is happening in the system. > vm statistics, data expiration from caches etc. Not sure what to do about > the per cpu threads generated by various kernel subsystems though. might be a little easier to sort this out after Jens code is in to create workers dynamically instead of on every cpu. -- 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/