Re: [ANNOUNCE] VST (tick elimination) is now available

[George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
>>The first release of the VST package is now available.  VST or 
>>Variable Scheduling Timeouts (or if you prefer, Variable Sleep Times) 
>>contains code that, from the idle task, scans the timer list and, if 
>>no timer is near, skips the timer interrupts that would otherwise be 
>>generated.  The patch name is hrtimers-vst-*
>>
>>The net result is that a quite system will use far less power as it 
>>does not need to wake up ever 1/HZ timer tick.
> 
> 
> Do you have some measurements of how much power does it save? Making
> Sharp Zaurus run longer on batteries would certainly be nice ;-).
> 								Pavel

Not just yet.  This is a first cut and a good deal of work still needs 
doing.  I could also say that that is why I put it out there :)
> 

-- 
George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml