Tickless kernel
A tickless kernel is an operating system kernel in which timer interrupts do not occur at regular intervals, but are only delivered as required. The Linux kernel on s390 from 2.6.6 and on i386 from release 2.6.21 can be configured to turn the timer tick off (tickless or dynamic tick) for idle CPUs using CONFIG_NO_HZ, and from 3.10 with CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE extended for non-idle processors with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL. The XNU kernel in OS X 10.4 on, and the NT kernel in Windows 8 kernel are also tickless.
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Tickless kernel
A tickless kernel is an operating system kernel in which timer interrupts do not occur at regular intervals, but are only delivered as required. The Linux kernel on s390 from 2.6.6 and on i386 from release 2.6.21 can be configured to turn the timer tick off (tickless or dynamic tick) for idle CPUs using CONFIG_NO_HZ, and from 3.10 with CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE extended for non-idle processors with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL. The XNU kernel in OS X 10.4 on, and the NT kernel in Windows 8 kernel are also tickless.
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A tickless kernel is an operat ...... ws 8 kernel are also tickless.
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A tickless kernel is an operat ...... ws 8 kernel are also tickless.
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