Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (109 mails)

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>]

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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Oct 14 2007 12:29, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>> That said, the 10.3 kernels on i386 machines are tickless. The timer
>> interrupt is set up on an on-demand basis, so the HZ value really
>> shouldn't matter. Tickless support hasn't been implemented for x86_64
>> yet, though.
> 
> rt is tickless, even on x86_64. But I've gone with the following
> layout:
>         -regular        100 Hz
>         -default        300 Hz [http://lwn.net/Articles/208411/]
>         -rt             1000 Hz

Oh cool. I didn't realize that. The -rt kernel has been managed by a
separate group. I suspect there a few patches lurking in there that
would be nice to apply unconditionally.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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