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linux/arch/x86
Peter Zijlstra 8f4d37ec07 sched: high-res preemption tick
Use HR-timers (when available) to deliver an accurate preemption tick.

The regular scheduler tick that runs at 1/HZ can be too coarse when nice
level are used. The fairness system will still keep the cpu utilisation 'fair'
by then delaying the task that got an excessive amount of CPU time but try to
minimize this by delivering preemption points spot-on.

The average frequency of this extra interrupt is sched_latency / nr_latency.
Which need not be higher than 1/HZ, its just that the distribution within the
sched_latency period is important.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
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boot x86 setup: don't recalculate ss:esp unless really necessary 2007-11-28 18:17:17 -08:00
configs x86 gart: rename CONFIG_IOMMU to CONFIG_GART_IOMMU 2007-10-30 00:22:22 +01:00
crypto [CRYPTO] twofish: Merge common glue code 2008-01-14 17:07:57 +11:00
ia32 x86 - 32-bit ptrace emulation mishandles 6th arg 2007-11-10 04:30:36 +01:00
kernel sched: high-res preemption tick 2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
lguest lguest: prevent VISWS or VOYAGER randconfigs 2007-11-29 09:24:55 -08:00
lib x86: disable preemption in delay_tsc() 2007-11-14 18:45:44 -08:00
mach-default spelling fixes: arch/i386/ 2007-10-20 01:13:56 +02:00
mach-es7000 i386: es7000 minor cleanups 2007-10-17 20:16:15 +02:00
mach-generic spelling fixes: arch/i386/ 2007-10-20 01:13:56 +02:00
mach-visws [x86] remove uses of magic macros for boot_params access 2007-10-16 17:38:31 -07:00
mach-voyager x86: fix smp init sections 2007-11-17 16:27:00 +01:00
math-emu kbuild: fix up CFLAGS usage 2007-10-14 21:49:42 +02:00
mm x86: fix boot crash on HIGHMEM4G && SPARSEMEM 2008-01-15 16:44:37 +01:00
oprofile Driver core: change sysdev classes to use dynamic kobject names 2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
pci Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86 2007-11-26 19:41:28 -08:00
power i386: move power 2007-10-11 11:16:34 +02:00
vdso x86: ignore the sys_getcpu() tcache parameter 2007-11-17 16:27:00 +01:00
video i386: move video 2007-10-11 11:16:56 +02:00
xen xen: disable vcpu_info placement for now 2008-01-23 18:04:54 -08:00
Kconfig Tiny clean-up of OPROFILE/KPROBES configuration 2007-12-06 09:41:12 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu unification 2007-11-12 21:02:19 +01:00
Kconfig.debug remove the dead X86_REMOTE_DEBUG option 2007-10-30 00:22:22 +01:00
Makefile x86: correctly set UTS_MACHINE for "make ARCH=x86" 2007-11-26 17:38:53 -08:00
Makefile_32 x86: do not use $(ARCH) when not needed 2007-11-12 21:02:20 +01:00
Makefile_32.cpu x86: move i386 and x86_64 Makefiles to arch/x86 2007-10-25 22:27:34 +02:00
Makefile_64 x86: do not use $(ARCH) when not needed 2007-11-12 21:02:20 +01:00