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Subject: Re: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan?
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> > ehh
> > why does it cause slow boots?
> > if that kind of behavior changes... isn't that a sign there is a
> > fundamental bug still ?
>  
> Well it seems like the next_timer_interrupt is something like 400
> jiffies away and RCU code waits for completion for example in the
> network code.

that sounds like a fundamental issue that really needs to be fixed
first!