* [email protected] <[email protected]> [050612 21:55]:
> On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 21:30:18 PDT, Tony Lindgren said:
>
> > Thanks for all the comments. Here's an updated dyntick patch.
>
> Patches with 3 minor rejects against -rc6-mm1, boots, and seems to work well on
> my Dell Latitude C840 laptop - although running at full load with seti@home
> causes the expected 250 timer ticks/sec, running a mostly-idle X session only
> gets about 117, and having xmms and a few other things running it hits about
> 170 tics/sec. I've had the CPU speed bounce between 1.2G and 1.6G a few times
> and it didn't seem to blink either. Even NTP is happy with what it sees.. ;)
Cool.
> Need to rebuild with CONFIG_HZ=1000 and see what it does, and see what it does
> to actual power consumption.
You may also want to check out the patch by Thomas Renninger for ACPI
C-states. I've added a link to it at:
http://muru.com/dyntick/
> Minor nit: The implementation of /sys/devices/system/timer/timer0/dyn_tick_state
> violates the one-value-per-file rule for sysfs. I suspect this needs to
> become a directory with 3-4 files in it, each containing one value.
Yeah, I'll clean up that for the next version.
Tony
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