Timer related events are managed by the high-resolution timers infrastructure (hrtimers) in the kernel and our approach to create a tickless Linux leverages this system. hrtimers manage a per-CPU based queue of timers ordered by the expiry time and they arm their corresponding hardware timer chips to interrupt the CPU only at the nearest event. The scheduler, for example, initializes an hrtimer to call the main scheduler tick function during the machine boot and forwards that timer with HZ frequency at every tick. We made a trivial modification to that function to forward the timer much further in the future rather than with HZ frequency. This change only triggers when the application requests a tickless environment with a system call and it is the only runnable process on its core at that moment. In that case, the CPU switches to a no tick mode where further timer and work item requests are queued to the corresponding OS core, which is always calculated as the first CPU in the application core’s NUMA domain. With this environment, applications still received interrupts due to IPIs sent from remote CPUs for the services that require global collaboration from all CPUs. We identified one of these services as the RCU subsystem and implemented necessary hooks to prevent interruption of no tick CPUs. After these modifications, application cores did not interrupt tasks running on them until those tasks exit or explicitly turned off the no tick mode. As shown in the Figure 2f, further benchmarks proved that the cores were noiseless with flat FWQ plots.