On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 04:59 pm, Jim MacBaine wrote: > I just borrowed a power meter to see (or not to see) real effects of > dyntick. The difference between static 1000 HZ and dynamic HZ is much > less than I expected, only a very little about noise. With dyntick > disabled at 1000 HZ my laptop needs 31,3 W. With dyntick enabled I > get 29.8 W, the pmstats-0.2 script shows me that the system is at > 35-45 HZ when it is idle. > > The power consumption difference between 250 HZ static and dyntick is > below the noise, so maybe hardly worth all the struggle.
That's not the point. We want the power savings without sacrificing the extra ticks if we need them. Cheers, Con - 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/
