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

[George Anzinger]

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 :)
>

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

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