Thread (94 messages) 94 messages, 17 authors, 2008-11-04

Re: [tbench regression fixes]: digging out smelly deadmen.

From: Rafael J. Wysocki <hidden>
Date: 2008-10-26 11:29:25
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On Sunday, 26 of October 2008, David Miller wrote:
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <redacted>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:13:20 +0200
quoted
Could you please give me a pointer to the commit disabling the hrtimer feature?
Here it is:
Thanks a lot!
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commit 0c4b83da58ec2e96ce9c44c211d6eac5f9dae478
Author: Ingo Molnar [off-list ref]
Date:   Mon Oct 20 14:27:43 2008 +0200

    sched: disable the hrtick for now
    
    David Miller reported that hrtick update overhead has tripled the
    wakeup overhead on Sparc64.
    
    That is too much - disable the HRTICK feature for now by default,
    until a faster implementation is found.
    
    Reported-by: David Miller [off-list ref]
    Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra [off-list ref]
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [off-list ref]
diff --git a/kernel/sched_features.h b/kernel/sched_features.h
index 7c9e8f4..fda0162 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched_features.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ SCHED_FEAT(START_DEBIT, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(AFFINE_WAKEUPS, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(CACHE_HOT_BUDDY, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(SYNC_WAKEUPS, 1)
-SCHED_FEAT(HRTICK, 1)
+SCHED_FEAT(HRTICK, 0)
 SCHED_FEAT(DOUBLE_TICK, 0)
 SCHED_FEAT(ASYM_GRAN, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(LB_BIAS, 1)
Rafael
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