From: aggelos Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:33:46 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Kill tickless kernel. This is a copy-paste from opensolaris. It looks embarassing... X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/4400143cc390372baa94a6ed5507aa115dce1301 Kill tickless kernel. This is a copy-paste from opensolaris. It looks embarassing. The project is not necessarily bad; people should feel free to readd it if they can put it in their own words and in dragonfly-specific terms --- diff --git a/docs/developer/gsoc2010/index.mdwn b/docs/developer/gsoc2010/index.mdwn index 4489d3de..c9de84d2 100644 --- a/docs/developer/gsoc2010/index.mdwn +++ b/docs/developer/gsoc2010/index.mdwn @@ -165,19 +165,6 @@ Meta information: --- -##### Make DragonflyBSD Tickless -* By default, the clock cyclic fires at 100 Hz, regardless of whether or not any timeouts/callouts are scheduled to fire/expire. This is suboptimal from a power efficiency standpoint, as at least one of the system's CPUs never become quiescent/idle enough to be brought into a low power state. -This work involves re-implementing the services presently provided by clock() in a tickless (or event based) fashion, eliminating the need for the system to "wake up", only to realize that there's nothing to do on an otherwise idle system. -* http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+tickless/lbolt - -Meta information: - -* Prerequisites: C, OS internals -* Difficulty: ? -* Contact point: kernel@crater.dragonflybsd.org - ---- - ##### Port DragonFly to ARM platform Meta information: