On 8/1/05, Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
OK, I rolled my own patch, 2.6.13-rc4-ck1-reiser4+this patch and it appears to be running on my desktop Asus A7N8X very well: I am running with Local APIC/IO-APIC/APIC Timer and forceapic. Time does not appear to be running slow, and I do not appear to have a slow boot. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /sys/devices/system/timer/timer0/dyn_tick_state suitable: 1 enabled: 1 using APIC: 1 [4294683.959000] dyn-tick: Maximum ticks to skip limited to 803 [4294683.959000] dyn-tick: Timer using dynamic tick The nvidia driver also works, and the most unexpected thing is after a few hours of running it seems stable :) So, to repeat I'm only reporting sucess, I'm unsure of the power savings but this computer is on all day. Thanks, avuton -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. - 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/
