On 8/3/07, David Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last night I upgraded a K6-2 machine from FC6 to F7 so that I could > get the latest kernel with dynticks support and hopefully save a > couple watts at idle. > > But it appears that dynticks isn't working on this machine as I'm > getting about 1000 extra timer interrupts a second as shown by > powertop.
In case anyone is interested, the PowerTOP FAQ seems to answer this question (See "What is tickless, how does it work?"). The machine in question only appears to have a PIT timer according to /proc/timer_list so dynticks aren't possible on this machine. -Dave _______________________________________________ Power mailing list Power@bughost.org http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
