Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:41:30 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] nohz1: Documentation |
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On 3/21/2013 10:18 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > o Use the "idle=poll" boot parameter. However, please note > that use of this parameter can cause your CPU to overheat, > which may cause thermal throttling to degrade your > latencies --and that this degradation can be even worse > than that of dyntick-idle.
it also disables (effectively) Turbo Mode on Intel cpus... which can cost you a serious percentage of performance
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