From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dynamic-hz
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:43:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041213104321.GB7340@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cone.1102896588.31702.10669.502@pc.kolivas.org>
Hi!
> >Actually, I measured about 1W power savings with HZ=100. That's about
> >as much as spindown of disk saves...
>
> How does the popular proprietary operating system cope with this? My
> understanding is they run 1000Hz yet they have good power saving and quiet
> capacitors. Presumably they do a lot less per timer tick?
Doing lot less per timer tick is not going to help much... You cpu
needs to awaken, anyway, and awaking of CPU takes lot of time and lot
of power, and is probably going to take way more power than execution
of timer interrupt.
Pavel
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Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-11 14:23 dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-11 14:50 ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-12 6:57 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-11 21:41 ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-12 16:35 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-12 22:23 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-12 23:36 ` dynamic-hz Con Kolivas
2004-12-12 23:42 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 0:09 ` dynamic-hz Con Kolivas
2004-12-13 8:37 ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-13 10:43 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-12-13 11:08 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 19:36 ` dynamic-hz john stultz
2004-12-12 23:43 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 0:18 ` dynamic-hz Con Kolivas
2004-12-13 0:27 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 1:50 ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-13 11:28 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 12:43 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 12:58 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 19:12 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 20:34 ` dynamic-hz john stultz
2004-12-13 20:49 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 2:04 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] ` <20041214013924.GB14617@atomide.com>
2004-12-14 9:37 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 21:18 ` dynamic-hz Tony Lindgren
2004-12-14 22:06 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 23:00 ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-14 23:13 ` dynamic-hz Tony Lindgren
2004-12-22 20:02 ` dynamic-hz Tony Lindgren
2004-12-14 23:04 ` dynamic-hz Tony Lindgren
2004-12-14 2:46 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 19:24 ` dynamic-hz john stultz
2004-12-14 2:36 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 9:39 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 9:59 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 15:25 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 22:02 ` USB making time drift [was Re: dynamic-hz] Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 23:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-15 2:59 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-15 9:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-15 16:44 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-15 18:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-16 1:59 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-16 11:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-16 12:50 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-15 20:16 ` Pavel Machek
2004-12-16 2:02 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-15 17:03 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-15 17:48 ` Tim Schmielau
2004-12-16 2:03 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-16 0:58 ` Pavel Machek
2004-12-16 2:33 ` john stultz
2004-12-16 1:15 ` Time goes crazy in 2.6.9 after long cli [was Re: USB making time drift] Pavel Machek
2004-12-16 11:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-16 12:49 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-13 14:50 ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-13 7:43 ` dynamic-hz Stefan Seyfried
2004-12-13 13:58 ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 14:14 ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 14:52 ` dynamic-hz Alan Cox
2004-12-13 16:23 ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 17:53 ` dynamic-hz Michael Buesch
2004-12-13 18:04 ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 19:04 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 20:11 ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-14 0:16 ` dynamic-hz Eric St-Laurent
2004-12-15 18:04 ` dynamic-hz Alan Cox
2004-12-15 19:54 ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-16 2:17 ` dynamic-hz Gene Heskett
2004-12-16 12:42 ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-17 20:12 ` dynamic-hz H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-16 9:10 ` dynamic-hz Gabriel Paubert
2004-12-16 12:17 ` dynamic-hz Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-12-16 14:00 ` dynamic-hz Mitchell Blank Jr
2004-12-13 15:30 ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-13 15:59 ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 16:14 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 16:06 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 16:19 ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-13 8:29 ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-14 22:54 ` dynamic-hz Lee Revell
2004-12-14 23:38 ` dynamic-hz Chris Friesen
2004-12-15 8:32 ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-13 11:02 ` dynamic-hz Andrew Morton
2004-12-13 11:17 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 11:25 ` dynamic-hz Andrew Morton
2004-12-13 11:47 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 3:56 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 3:54 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 4:29 ` dynamic-hz Andrew Morton
2004-12-14 5:25 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-17 20:10 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 10:01 ` dynamic-hz Domen Puncer
2004-12-14 16:56 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 14:23 ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-14 16:54 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 17:15 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 17:42 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 18:29 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 19:00 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 18:22 ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-14 18:38 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 18:50 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 11:19 ` dynamic-hz Hans Kristian Rosbach
2004-12-13 11:22 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 11:39 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 12:51 ` dynamic-hz Hans Kristian Rosbach
2004-12-13 13:01 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 13:02 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 15:06 ` dynamic-hz Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-12-13 16:12 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 16:14 ` dynamic-hz Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-12-14 4:06 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 4:05 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-13 11:33 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 14:38 ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-13 12:00 ` dynamic-hz Alan Cox
2004-12-13 15:52 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 22:28 ` dynamic-hz Lee Revell
2004-12-14 22:40 ` dynamic-hz Con Kolivas
2004-12-14 22:50 ` dynamic-hz Lee Revell
2004-12-13 20:26 ` dynamic-hz Olaf Hering
2004-12-13 22:41 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 20:56 ` dynamic-hz john stultz
2004-12-13 22:21 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
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