Linux Plumbers Conf 2014

One Line Summary

Abstract

The full dynticks patchset has been merged in 3.10. This feature, which aims at stopping the tick completely, has seen some evolution since then: bugfixes, optimizations, users and benchmark measurements.

This talk is a summary of these changes.

Tags

realtime, kernel, Timers, scheduler, RCU, hpc

Presentation Materials

Speaker

• Frederic Weisbecker

  Red Hat
  Biography

  Frederic Weisbecker is a Linux Kernel developer working for Red Hat. His involvement and role in the Linux community has evolved over time: he has been working on tracing with ftrace and perf events subsystems, on timers and dynticks-mode, and he helped to remove the big kernel lock.

  Sessions

  • * Current state of full dynticks
    • Title: Current state of full dynticks
    • Microconference: Real Time I
    • One Line Summary:

      Summary about full dynticks evolvement

    • slides
    • Speakers: Frederic Weisbecker