Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:20:21 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
       Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
       Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
       Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dynamic tick patch
Message-ID: <20050119222021.GC17325@elf.ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> > > As this patch is related to the VST/High-Res timers, there
> > > are probably various things that can be merged. I have not
> > > yet looked at what all could be merged.
> > > 
> > > I'd appreciate some comments and testing!
> > 
> > Good news is that it does seem to reduce number of interrupts. Bad
> > news is that time now runs faster (like "sleep 10" finishes in ~5
> > seconds) and that I could not measure any difference in power
> > consumption.
> 
> Thanks for trying it out. I have quite accurate time here on my
> systems, and sleep works as it should. I wonder what's happening on
> your system? If you have a chance, could you please post the results
> from following simple tests?

Correction: with patch was not 2.6.11-rc1, but 2.6.11-rc1-bk.
								Pavel
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