* Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050801 21:41]: > 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.
Great! We ported it from ARM to x86 so people could develop it further. Help is really appreciated to get it into shape for integration. > This has slightly more build fixes than the last one I posted and boots and > runs fine on my laptop. So far at absolute idle it appears this pentiumM 1.7 > is claiming to have _25%_ more battery life. I'll need to investigate further > to see the real power savings. What is your HZ according to pmstats? > My desktop pentium4 did not like the patch erroring with "bad gzip magic > number" on boot for reasons that aren't obvious to me. This could be related > to trying gcc 4.0.1 on that box whereas the laptop is on gcc 3.4.4 and is > working fine. Yeah, this sounds like an issue with the decompression code. Tony - 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/
