From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261966AbVASXSH (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:18:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261971AbVASXRv (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:17:51 -0500 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:36348 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261966AbVASXOt (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:14:49 -0500 Message-ID: <41EEE9E4.4070105@mvista.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:14:44 -0800 From: George Anzinger Reply-To: george@mvista.com Organization: MontaVista Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: george@mvista.com CC: Pavel Machek , kernel list Subject: Re: VST patches ported to 2.6.11-rc1 References: <20050113132641.GA4380@elf.ucw.cz> <20050114001118.GA1367@elf.ucw.cz> <41E71A78.8050507@mvista.com> In-Reply-To: <41E71A78.8050507@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org George Anzinger wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> >>> I really hate sf download system... Here are those patches (only >>> common+i386) ported to 2.6.11-rc1. >> >> >> >> Good news is it booted. But I could not measure any powersavings by >> turning it on. (I could measure difference between HZ=100 and >> HZ=1000). >> >> Hmm, it does not want to do anything. threshold used to be 1000, does >> it mean that it would not use vst unless there was one second of quiet >> state? I tried to lower it to 10 ("get me HZ=100 power consumption") >> but it does not seem to be used, anyway: I wonder if the problem is that we are not disabling the PIT interrupt. I have a PIII SMP system so the interrupt path may be different and the code to stop interrupts may be wrong. The normal system does not admit to stopping the time base so it is possible that this is wrong. -g -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/