Bill, Bill Unruh wrote: > Now of course I suspect that the kernel has to wake itself even more often > than once a second (eg the timer interrupt) and if it did not, the effect > on the time discipline would be pretty bad.
The Linux kernel has recently gone tickless, meaning that it only schedules a wakeup for itself at the first time that it knows a timer will expire. A quick intro on that can be found here: http://www.lesswatts.org/documentation/silicon-power-mgmnt/#ticklessidle Cheers, Jan _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
