Back on Sunday 06 July 2008, schoappied was like: > > should I have this enabled? I seems weird to set it to No_HZ if further > on Hz is set to 1000 ... or do i misunderstand this item? > > Tickless System (Dynamic Ticks) (NO_HZ) > > This option enables a tickless system: timer interrupts will > only trigger on an as-needed basis both when the system is > busy and when the system is idle. > It's sort of like using a callback rather than polling to deal with interrupts. (not literally, but the analogy works) It's great for laptops because it helps preserve battery power. It _sounds_ like it might be a cool option for real time, but I've tried it and it caused all kinds of problems with real time performance. (It also totally hosed compiz) -Reuben _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
