On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 06:25:29PM +0000, Jonathan Stone wrote: > You can only do tickless if you can track how much time is elapsing when no > ticks fire, or none are pending. > I don't see how to do that without a high-res timer like a CPU cycle counter, > or I/O bus cycle counter, > or what-have-you. Gong fully tickless would therefore end support for > machines without such a timer. > Is NetBSD ready to do that?
Kernels on that machines just would not run fully tickless. Martin
