Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:05:10AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> The real answer here is for the tickless patches to cleaned up to
> the point where they can be merged, and then we won't waste battery
> power entering the timer interrupt in the first place.  :-)

Whilst conceptually this is a nice idea I've yet to see any viable
code that overall has a lower cost.  Tickless is a really nice idea
for embedded devices and also paravirtualized hardware but I don't
think anyone has it working well enough yet do they?
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