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[Xen-devel] Re: A proposal - binary

To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: A proposal - binary
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 13:57:09 +0200
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> Has anyone measured the performance impact of rutime CLOCK_TICK_RATE 
> switching (since this will no longer allow some compile time 
> optimizations in jiffies.h)?

SUSE shipped a kernel briefly that had runtime switchable jiffies
and there were some benchmarks done and they didn't show noticeable
slowdown.

But with hr timers it should be pretty much obsolete anyways.

-Andi


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