> ondemand is the biggest offender and the patch below reduces the number of > interrupts by 50% or more (depending on HZ) on different test systems here.
Cool! > Yes. There are quite a few other timers inside kernel that can be > migrated. I will use timer_stats and track others and send in the patches > soon. Longer term it might make sense to even expose this as a option to user space. Maybe as a new timer in setitimer()? This might safe power with "wiggling desktop applets" too. -Andi - 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/