Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:57:09 +0530
From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, george@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] (How to) Let idle CPUs sleep
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On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:59:59AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> The latest patches seem to do tick skipping rather than wholesale 
> ticklessness.  Admittedly, the latter is a more invasive change, but one 

If you are referring to my i386 patch, that was only a hack to test the
scheduler change!

> that may end up being simpler in the long run.  But maybe George did a 
> design like that in the past and rejected it?

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Thanks and Regards,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Labs,
Bangalore, INDIA - 560017
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