Re: [patch] i386 dynamic ticks 2.6.13-rc4 (code reordered)

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On 8/1/05, Con Kolivas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

OK, I rolled my own patch, 2.6.13-rc4-ck1-reiser4+this patch and it
appears to be running on my desktop Asus A7N8X very well:

I am running with Local APIC/IO-APIC/APIC Timer and forceapic. Time
does not appear to be running slow, and I do not appear to have a slow
boot.

sbh@rocket ~ $ cat /sys/devices/system/timer/timer0/dyn_tick_state
suitable:       1
enabled:        1
using APIC:     1

[4294683.959000] dyn-tick: Maximum ticks to skip limited to 803
[4294683.959000] dyn-tick: Timer using dynamic tick

The nvidia driver also works, and the most unexpected thing is after a
few hours of running it seems stable :)

So, to repeat I'm only reporting sucess, I'm unsure of the power
savings but this computer is on all day.

Thanks,
avuton
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