I tested Doug's patch on 3.0.0-16 in tickless mode, and it seems to report the same or similar results as the same kernel without the patch and ticks enabled.
Attached is a before and after load average graph, ignore the spike that was the kernel compiling Doug's patch.
I tested Doug's patch on 3.0.0-16 in tickless mode, and it seems to report the same or similar results as the same kernel without the patch and ticks enabled.
Attached is a before and after load average graph, ignore the spike that was the kernel compiling Doug's patch.