On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:05:10AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > The real answer here is for the tickless patches to cleaned up to > the point where they can be merged, and then we won't waste battery > power entering the timer interrupt in the first place. :-)
Whilst conceptually this is a nice idea I've yet to see any viable code that overall has a lower cost. Tickless is a really nice idea for embedded devices and also paravirtualized hardware but I don't think anyone has it working well enough yet do they? - 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/