Hyperthreading

Posted May 13, 2013 21:46 UTC (Mon) by chloe_zen (guest, #8258)
In reply to: Hyperthreading by akeane
Parent article: (Nearly) full tickless operation in 3.10

I think you haven't been keeping up with current events (no pun intended); event-driven loops in a single OS thread are the New Way of getting the most I/O through a CPU. This is a realistically useful optimization.

Hyperthreading

Posted May 20, 2013 23:13 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (1 responses)

So, ticks to look some day as outdated as polling?

ticks vs. polling

Posted May 21, 2013 7:49 UTC (Tue) by cladisch (✭ supporter ✭, #50193) [Link]

> ticks to look some day as outdated as polling?

Polling is regularly checking the status, just because something that needs handling might have happened.

Ticks are polling.