From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932082AbVHHPIg (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:08:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750929AbVHHPIg (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:08:36 -0400 Received: from keetweej.xs4all.nl ([213.84.46.114]:35756 "EHLO keetweej.vanheusden.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750940AbVHHPIf (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:08:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:08:30 +0200 From: Folkert van Heusden To: Con Kolivas Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vatsa@in.ibm.com, ck@vds.kolivas.org, tony@atomide.com, tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com, george@mvista.com, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5 Message-ID: <20050808150829.GW22838@vanheusden.com> References: <200508031559.24704.kernel@kolivas.org> <200508060239.41646.kernel@kolivas.org> <20050806174739.GU4029@stusta.de> <200508071512.22668.kernel@kolivas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200508071512.22668.kernel@kolivas.org> Organization: www.unixexpert.nl X-Chameleon-Return-To: folkert@vanheusden.com X-Xfmail-Return-To: folkert@vanheusden.com X-Phonenumber: +31-6-41278122 X-URL: http://www.vanheusden.com/ X-PGP-KeyID: 1F28D8AE X-GPG-fingerprint: AC89 09CE 41F2 00B4 FCF2 B174 3019 0E8C 1F28 D8AE X-Key: http://pgp.surfnet.nl:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x1F28D8AE Read-Receipt-To: Reply-By: Mon Aug 8 22:08:29 CEST 2005 X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Message-Flag: MultiTail - tail on steroids User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Are there any tools for checking the current number of ticks? I currently do: #!/bin/sh S1=`cat /proc/interrupts | grep "^ 0: " | awk '{ print $2; }'` sleep 1 S2=`cat /proc/interrupts | grep "^ 0: " | awk '{ print $2; }'` echo $((S2-S1)) But that gives me output like this on a quiet system with only firefox, a couple of gnometerms and a bittorrent downloader values like: folkert@ehm:~$ for i in `seq 1 10` ; do ./ticks ; done 566 511 630 501 522 533 503 516 518 515 which I find quiet high, aren't they? On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:12:21PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > Respin of the dynamic ticks patch for i386 by Tony Lindgen and Tuukka Tikkanen > with further code cleanups. Are were there yet? > > Cheers, > Con > --- > > Folkert van Heusden -- Auto te koop, zie: http://www.vanheusden.com/daihatsu.php -------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your PGP/GPG key signed at www.biglumber.com! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28D8AE