On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:31:22 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * Steven Rostedt | 2016-07-15 11:22:44 [-0400]: > > >> Changes since v4.6.4-rt8: > >> > >> - Import Thomas' timer rework known as "timer: Refactor the timer > >> wheel" patch set which made its way into the -TIP tree. With this > >> changes we get NOHZ_FULL working. Finally. > > > >Does this mean that there's no more 1 second tick? > > >From tracing there a timer wakeup each second but before we had a wakeup > each jiffy because we could not lookup the next timer without taking the > base lock which we can do now. > However if there is room for improvement to have a wakeup every two or > five seconds I am all for it because from RT point of view we should be > able to do the same things as the non-RT version. Ah, that's right. I forgot that NOHZ_FULL was broken in -rt, which sorta defeated the point, as NOHZ_FULL is a birth child of -rt in the first place. OK, thanks for clarifying. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
