Hyperthreading

Posted May 20, 2013 23:13 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Hyperthreading by chloe_zen
Parent article: (Nearly) full tickless operation in 3.10

So, ticks to look some day as outdated as polling?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 ticks to look some day as outdated as polling?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