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

[Pavel Machek]

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

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