Hi! > > 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? Actually for power managment uses, "NO_IDLE_HZ" seems to be enough, and that is both implemented and working. Pavel -- teflon -- maybe it is a trademark, but it should not be. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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