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From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
To: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: High pitched noise from laptop: processor.c in linux 2.6
Date: 17 Oct 2004 01:21:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097990475.2673.14262.camel@cube> (raw)

Alan Cox writes:
> On Sad, 2004-10-16 at 20:52, Lee Revell wrote:
>> [Pavel Machek]

>>> What benefits? HZ=1000 takes 1W more on my system.
>>
>> Better timer resolution?
>
> And heavily reduced accuracy on a lot of laptops
> where 1000Hz is enough to make the clock slide
> every time the battery state is queried or an SMM
> event triggers.

How low is low enough for nearly all of these laptops?
Some decent choices:

wrongness_%   HZ_diff   PIT_#   HZ     actual_HZ
-0.00083809  -0.003051   3278   364   363.996949  
-0.00016762  -0.000483   4143   288   287.999517
-0.00016762  -0.000724   2762   432   431.999276
-0.00016762  -0.001448   1381   864   863.998552
+0.00008381  +0.000304   3287   363   363.000304  
+0.00008381  +0.000435   2299   519   519.000435  
+0.00008381  +0.000525   1903   627   627.000525  



             reply	other threads:[~2004-10-17  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-17  5:21 Albert Cahalan [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-18  3:51 High pitched noise from laptop: processor.c in linux 2.6 Yu, Luming
2004-10-18 11:41 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 14:47   ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-20 15:47     ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 16:37       ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-20 16:49         ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-10-20 16:53           ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 16:53         ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 17:13           ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-21 20:32             ` Lee Revell
2004-10-21 21:39               ` Jon Masters
2004-10-20 23:31   ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-10-07  9:30 Fraz
2004-10-07 10:32 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-07 10:53   ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-07 14:32     ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-16 19:52       ` Lee Revell
2004-10-16 21:46         ` Alan Cox
2004-10-17  1:24           ` Lee Revell
2004-10-17  1:50             ` Kyle Moffett
2004-10-17  2:21             ` Alan Cox
2004-10-17  3:33               ` Lee Revell
2004-10-22 11:40               ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-10-16 19:59       ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-16 20:42         ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-07 14:34     ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-17  0:45   ` Alex Riesen
2004-10-07 10:37 ` Christian Hesse

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