LWN: Comments on "Dropping the timer tick — for real this time"

Dropping the timer tick — for real this time

gby — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:43:21 +0000

To be fair, these changes work as out of tree patches for production (and products) systems in the real world for several years now - in specific work loads of specific systems.

The road to general kernel acceptance may be long, BUT the changes has a sound base.

Dropping the timer tick — for real this time

WanpengLi — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 01:10:55 +0000

Still a long way to go instead of for real this time.

Dropping the timer tick — for real this time

arnd — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 08:15:41 +0000

Here is a link to the first time this was covered on LWN 15 years ago: http://lwn.net/2001/0412/kernel.php3

Dropping the timer tick — for real this time

chantecode — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 23:52:23 +0000

Hehe! I suspect there will be more than one iteration of articles entitled "Dropping the timer tick — for real this time".

-- Frederic.