Re: Dynamic ticks make system jerking

2007-06-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Uwe Kleine-König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found the problem, it had only indirectly to do with nohz. I didn't > acknowledge the serial interrupt but as the timer and the serial need > the same acknowledgement the serial irq got his ack always when the > timer triggerd. Up to now that

Re: Dynamic ticks make system jerking

2007-06-29 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hello, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > it's nohz=off not no_hz=off > Currently I'm not sure, which I was really using. I think it was the > right one, because dmesg changed. But anyhow, I will retest if I made > it wrong. OK, I was really using no_hz, and with nohz I got approx the same result as wi

Re: Dynamic ticks make system jerking

2007-06-27 Thread Uwe Kleine-Koenig
Hello, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 17:00 +0200, Uwe Kleine-K??nig wrote: > > If I enable NO_HZ, the system jerks (I hope this is an understandable > > term ...). E.g. > > > > # time find /sys > > ... > > real1m 19.52s > > user0m 0.18s > > sys

Re: Dynamic ticks make system jerking

2007-06-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 17:00 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > If I enable NO_HZ, the system jerks (I hope this is an understandable > term ...). E.g. > > # time find /sys > ... > real1m 19.52s > user0m 0.18s > sys 0m 0.15s > > on a freshly booted machin