linux-kernel - Re: Scheduler regression: Too frequent timer interrupts(?)

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Date:	Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:42:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scheduler regression: Too frequent timer interrupts(?)

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> This has never been true afaikt, as long as we have a task running, we
> take the interrupt, I just looked at the .22 code and that certainly
> expects the scheduler_tick() to be called when there is a running
> process.
>
> Also, look at /proc/interrupts if you want to determine interrupt
> frequency.

I am mainly interested in limited the number and length of cpu holdoffs.

If the timer interrupt is always taken then it must take less than 1 usec
in certain versions of the kernel in order to not show up in the
statistics gathered.


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