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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt b/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt index d5323e075550..88697584242b 100644 --- a/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt +++ b/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt @@ -278,6 +278,11 @@ o Adaptive-ticks does not do anything unless there is only one single runnable SCHED_FIFO task and multiple runnable SCHED_OTHER tasks, even though these interrupts are unnecessary. + And even when there are multiple runnable tasks on a given CPU, + there is little point in interrupting that CPU until the current + running task's timeslice expires, which is almost always way + longer than the time of the next scheduling-clock interrupt. + Better handling of these sorts of situations is future work. o A reboot is required to reconfigure both adaptive idle and RCU @@ -308,6 +313,16 @@ o Unless all CPUs are idle, at least one CPU must keep the scheduling-clock interrupt going in order to support accurate timekeeping. -o If there are adaptive-ticks CPUs, there will be at least one - CPU keeping the scheduling-clock interrupt going, even if all - CPUs are otherwise idle. +o If there might potentially be some adaptive-ticks CPUs, there + will be at least one CPU keeping the scheduling-clock interrupt + going, even if all CPUs are otherwise idle. + + Better handling of this situation is ongoing work. + +o Some process-handling operations still require the occasional + scheduling-clock tick. These operations include calculating CPU + load, maintaining sched average, computing CFS entity vruntime, + computing avenrun, and carrying out load balancing. They are + currently accommodated by scheduling-clock tick every second + or so. On-going work will eliminate the need even for these + infrequent scheduling-clock ticks. |