This is the dynamic ticks patch for i386 as written by Tony Lindgen 
<tony@atomide.com> and Tuukka Tikkanen <tuukka.tikkanen@elektrobit.com>. 
Patch for 2.6.13-rc5

There were a couple of things that I wanted to change so here is an updated 
version. This code should have stabilised enough for general testing now.

The sysfs interface was moved to its own directory 
in /sys/devices/system/dyn_tick and split into separate files to 
enable/disable dynamic ticks and usage of apic on the fly. It makes sense to 
enable dynamic ticks and usage of apic by default if they're actually built 
into the kernel so that is now done.

Cheers,
Con
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