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@@ -158,13 +158,9 @@ not come for free:
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to the need to inform kernel subsystems (such as RCU) about
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the change in mode.
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-3. POSIX CPU timers on adaptive-tick CPUs may miss their deadlines
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- (perhaps indefinitely) because they currently rely on
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- scheduling-tick interrupts. This will likely be fixed in
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- one of two ways: (1) Prevent CPUs with POSIX CPU timers from
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- entering adaptive-tick mode, or (2) Use hrtimers or other
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- adaptive-ticks-immune mechanism to cause the POSIX CPU timer to
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- fire properly.
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+3. POSIX CPU timers prevent CPUs from entering adaptive-tick mode.
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+ Real-time applications needing to take actions based on CPU time
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+ consumption need to use other means of doing so.
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4. If there are more perf events pending than the hardware can
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accommodate, they are normally round-robined so as to collect
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