[LAT] Tickless kernel and realtime

Jaromír Mikeš mira.mikes at seznam.cz
Thu Sep 18 15:42:43 EDT 2008


> It changes the way timer interrupts are triggered. tickless means only
> on demand.
>  
> There may be scheduling benefits, but they can probably be neglected:
>  timer-interrupts are handled quickly, NTL cause the CPU to //wake-up and
>  consume more power//.

It is possible to say it is generally good for RT kernel?

Thanks for help

Mira


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