From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261947AbVGaVyR (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:54:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261962AbVGaVyR (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:54:17 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:7313 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261947AbVGaVyP (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:54:15 -0400 Subject: Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers From: Lee Revell To: Pavel Machek Cc: James Bruce , Marc Ballarin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050731211020.GB27433@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050730004924.087a7630.Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de> <1122678943.9381.44.camel@mindpipe> <20050730120645.77a33a34.Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de> <1122746718.14769.4.camel@mindpipe> <20050730195116.GB9188@elf.ucw.cz> <1122753864.14769.18.camel@mindpipe> <20050730201049.GE2093@elf.ucw.cz> <42ED32D3.9070208@andrew.cmu.edu> <20050731211020.GB27433@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:54:13 -0400 Message-Id: <1122846853.13000.12.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 23:10 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > I really like having 250HZ as an _option_, but what I don't see is why > > it should be the _default_. I believe this is Lee's position as > > Last I checked, ACPI and CPU speed scaling were not enabled by default; > > Kernel defaults are irelevant; distros change them anyway. OK, so HZ should be left at 1000 so "make oldconfig" continues to do the right thing. It is supposed to give me my old config, right? Lee