On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:01:46AM -0600, Christopher Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 04:23:57AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > > When a CPU runs in full dynticks mode, a 1Hz tick remains in order to > > > keep the scheduler stats alive. However this residual tick is a burden > > > for Real-Time tasks that can't stand no interruption at all. > > > > I'm not sure that is accurate. RT doesn't necessarily have anything much > > to so with this. The tick is per definition very deterministic and thus > > should not be a problem. > > Depends what one means by RT.
Real Time computing as per the literature. Any other definition is wrong and confusing.
