Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

David Weinehall
2005-08-01T07:44:52Z

On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 07:23:54PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 00:47 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure at least one distro will go with HZ<300 real soon now
> > ;-).
> >
>
> Any idea what their official recommendation for people running apps that
> require the 1ms sleep resolution is? Something along the lines of "Get
> bent"?

Calm down. Any argument along the lines of the change of a default
value in the defconfig screwing people over equally applies the other
way around; by not changing the defconfig, you're screwing laptop users
(and others that want less power consumption) over. The world is not
black and white, it's a very boring gray (or a very sadening bloody
red; but I hope we won't come to that point just because of a silly
argument on lkml...)

In the end, Linus will decide this anyway. I can understand that you
don't want to change your application. Help developing the dynamic
tick patch, and maybe you won't have to =)

Regards: David Weinehall
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