(Nearly) full tickless operation in 3.10

Posted May 8, 2013 18:02 UTC (Wed) by gby (guest, #23264)
Parent article: (Nearly) full tickless operation in 3.10

There is no inherent one second timer tick except on on a single CPU on the system. I think you got this wrong.

One-second tick

Posted May 8, 2013 18:29 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

See this commit. One tick per second is still needed.

One-second tick

Posted May 9, 2013 0:18 UTC (Thu) by simlo (guest, #10866) [Link]

Hmm, wouldn't it be more appropiate just to make sure the timer is set at a maximum of 1 second in the future after last time the scheduler ran instead of being run every second?