On 3/21/2013 10:18 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
o Use the "idle=poll" boot parameter. However, please note that use of this parameter can cause your CPU to overheat, which may cause thermal throttling to degrade your latencies --and that this degradation can be even worse than that of dyntick-idle.
it also disables (effectively) Turbo Mode on Intel cpus... which can cost you a serious percentage of performance -- 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/