Re: [PATCH] Add the LED burst trigger

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:13 PM, One Thousand Gnomes
<gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Plus, it will actually save CPU cycles, and thus significant power.
>
> All of which will be totally wiped out if you bump all the millions of
> x86 server boxes in the world up by one page of kernel space and cause a
> few disk I/Os

FWIW, the former is on battery power, the latter isn't.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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