[RFC] [PATCH] allow low HZ values?

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> writes:
> > We have told HPC folks for years that we need a kind of "NOHZ" mode
> > for HPC where we can transparently switch off the tick when only one
> > user space bound thread is active and switch back to normal once this
> > thing terminates or goes into the kernel via a syscall. Sigh, nothing
> > happened ever except for repeating the same crap patches over and
> > over.
> 
> Jan Blunck posted a patch for this exactly few months ago.
> Unfortunately it didn't get the accounting right, but other than
> that it seemed like a reasonable starting point.

Unfortunately it did not get a lot of other things right either.

Thanks,

	tglx