Re: .config 2.6.24 i386/amd64 discussions
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 12:39:36AM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote:
> How is the performance impact of HZ_1000 and tickless versus HZ_100?
> If the impact is as big as the HZ_100 vs HZ_1000 one, I think it's
> time to have a desktop/laptop and a server kernel image for amd64.
> The desktop image would get HZ_1000, tickless and preemption.
> The server image would get HZ_100, no preemption, 255 CPUs support,
> and xen/vserver flavours.
FWIW, I think "desktop" and "server" are misleading descriptions here. It's
my impression that there are lots of servers in production that would also
benefit from power savings as a result of tickless. Perhaps "standard" and
"performance" would be better descriptors here?
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