2013/3/21 Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com>: > On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > >> Sure, for now just don't use SCHED_FIFO and you will have a much more >> extended dynticks coverage. > > Ah. Ok. Important information. That would mean no tick for the 2 second > intervals between the vm stats etc. Much much better than now where we > have a tick 1000 times per second.
I can't guarantee no tick, there can be many reasons for the tick to happen. But if you don't run SCHED_FIFO, the pending kernel thread can execute quickly and give back the CPU for your task alone, then the tick can shut down again. -- 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/
