On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 18:02 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > Yes. Distros seem to want to make full dynticks available for users but they > also want the off case (when nohz_full= isn't passed) to keep the lowest > overhead > as possible.
Yup, zero being the _desired_ number. The general case can't afford any fastpath cycles being added by a fringe feature, we're too fat now. Imagines marketeer highlighting shiny new fringe feature: "...and most network benchmarks show that we only lost a few percent throughput, so you won't have to increase the size of your server farm _too_ much". Ok, so my imagination conjured up a _stupid_ marketeer, you get it ;-) -Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
