On 11/05/2016 12:45 AM, Paul Davis wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: >> >> echo "CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL=y" >> .config >> echo "CONFIG_HZ_1000=y" >> .config >> >> On 11/04/2016 09:24 PM, Paul Davis wrote: >>> >>> surely a tickless kernel is much better on almost any vaguelymodern hardware? >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: >>>> >>>> none of the above abstains you from a tickless kernel >>>> >>>> CONFIG_NO_HZ and CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE are untouched, as far as`make oldconfig` goes >>>> > > i'm just wondering why you'd bother to set HZ when the preferred configuration is NO_HZ .. ? > well, the so called "tickless" option is about omitting kernel scheduling clock ticks on *idle* cpus. the sched clock will still tick to the HZ setting on regular basis on non-idle situations. setting the HZ=1000 is mostly desirable for the default ALSA MIDI system timers to have a better resolution than the Linus' default (HZ=250). byee -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
