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SubjectRe: [PATCH] nohz1: Documentation
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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