Neale Ferguson wrote: > See: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6750 > > "The tickless kernel feature (CONFIG_NO_HZ) enables 'on-demand' timer > interrupts: if there is no timer to be expired for say 1.5 seconds when the > system goes idle, then the system will stay totally idle for 1.5 seconds. > This should bring cooler CPUs and power savings: on our (x86) testboxes we > have measured the effective IRQ rate to go from HZ to 1-2 timer interrupts > per second." > > Does this have any implications for the current s390 no_timer stuff? > No. In fact it is designed after the no_timer stuff. One could say it has been cross-ported from S/390 :-)
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