From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: 2.4.18-pre7 slow ... apm problem
Date: 27 Jan 2002 22:22:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1012188133.2668.84.camel@thanatos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16Uzie-0003Ba-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16Uzie-0003Ba-00@the-village.bc.nu>
I wrote:
> APM idling is done if apm_cpu_idle() is called, and then if
> DELTA(current->times.tms_stime)
> -------------------------------
> DELTA(jiffies)
> is greater than the idle threshold of 0.95. Could that ratio be
> affected by VMware? If so, how?
Herm ... I think what you meant was that (a guest OS under)
VMware might be telling the APM BIOS to idle the CPU.
In that case, apm management should be shut off in either
VMware or in the guest OS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-28 3:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-28 0:15 2.4.18-pre7 slow ... apm problem Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 0:32 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-28 2:37 ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 10:14 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-28 11:25 ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 13:03 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-28 13:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-28 16:19 ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 3:22 ` Thomas Hood [this message]
2002-01-28 20:11 ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-28 20:28 ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 22:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-29 12:36 ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-30 1:12 ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-30 9:22 ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-28 21:14 ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 21:17 ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-28 23:09 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-29 13:01 ` Jeff Chua
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-29 18:53 Petr Vandrovec
2002-01-29 22:47 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-30 0:44 ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-30 5:50 ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-01-30 9:27 ` Jeff Chua
2002-02-01 13:20 ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-28 23:22 Petr Vandrovec
2002-01-27 10:08 Jeff Chua
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