On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, Tony Lindgren wrote: [snip] > > > > Same issue, it's waiting on dynticks before being reworked. > > Also one more minor issue; Dyntick can cause slow boots with dyntick > enabled from boot because the there's not much in the timer queue > until init. > > This probably does not show up much on x86 though because of the > short hardware timers.
You could disable it until jiffies >= 0; this covers the boot criteria and still allows for moderate savings post boot (though maybe on embedded systems the delay is too long?). -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/