In case it is still unclear what tick suppression really does, shown here are the actual oscilloscope screenshots. In this case, the developers application has created two software timers, each of which call a function every 10 ticks, however, they are staggered to start two ticks from each other. Without tick suppression, one can see that every time the interrupt is asserted in the top graph, the clock tick runs in the bottom graph. However, with tick suppression implemented, the clocks actually invoke their functions at their specified rates.