Stratum-1 HOWTO tickless confusion

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sun Jan 29 15:54:48 UTC 2017


Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo.de>:
> 
> The Stratum-1 HOWTO needlessly confuses tickless operation with the
> opposite: "An optimization that is convenient to apply at this point is
> telling the kernel to run tickless[…]".  The standard kernel is running
> tickless by default and switches off the scheduling tick when all CPU
> become idle.

I'd take a patch to fix this.
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