Linux Dynticks Being Extended For Performance Wins

Posted by tracyanne on Dec 19, 2012 5:24 AM EDT
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Dynticks, the Dynamic Tick Timer for allowing the Linux kernel to skip ticks while idling and resume to running at full HZ when encountering load, is in the process of being extended. Developers are working on making Dynticks work even under select workloads in order to enhance the performance of CPU-intensive tasks...

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