Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:53:22 +0000 | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] nohz1: Documentation |
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> For now, no, if more than one process is scheduled on the CPU, we fall > out of dynamic tick mode. In the future, we can add SCHED_FIFO task > scheduled in to trigger it. But lets conquer that after we successfully > conquer the current changes.
Be glad to see whatever is possible merged as soon as possible. But be aware that we will fall out of dyntick mode at mininum every 2 seconds because that is when the per cpu vm stats and the slab scanning is occurring. These are both deferrable activities.
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