* Con Kolivas <[email protected]> [050801 21:41]:
> This is a code reordered version of the dynamic ticks patch from Tony Lindgen
> and Tuukka Tikkanen - sorry about spamming your mail boxes with this, but
> thanks for the code. There is significant renewed interest by the lkml
> audience for such a feature which is why I'm butchering your code (sorry
> again if you don't like me doing this). The only real difference between your
> code and this patch is moving the #ifdef'd code out of code paths and putting
> it into dyn-tick specific files.
Great! We ported it from ARM to x86 so people could develop it further. Help
is really appreciated to get it into shape for integration.
> This has slightly more build fixes than the last one I posted and boots and
> runs fine on my laptop. So far at absolute idle it appears this pentiumM 1.7
> is claiming to have _25%_ more battery life. I'll need to investigate further
> to see the real power savings.
What is your HZ according to pmstats?
> My desktop pentium4 did not like the patch erroring with "bad gzip magic
> number" on boot for reasons that aren't obvious to me. This could be related
> to trying gcc 4.0.1 on that box whereas the laptop is on gcc 3.4.4 and is
> working fine.
Yeah, this sounds like an issue with the decompression code.
Tony
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