• [^] # Re: Que du bon

    Posté par (site web personnel) . En réponse à la dépêche Le noyau Linux 3.10 est sorti. Évalué à 10.

    Par exemple quand tu as un super calculateur qui fait tourner une seule tâche à pleine vitesse, ben maintenant cette exécution ne se fait plus interrompre 1000 fois par seconde.
    Je te colle l'extrait du mail d'Ingo Molnar qui explique les cas ou cette fonction est bénéfique :

    This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but the
    general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than that:

    - HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able to
    utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at HZ=1000
    can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature removes that
    overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on typical distro
    configs even on modern systems.

    - Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks
    should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining
    source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick.

    - A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation,
    especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature
    helps desktop and mobile workloads as well.