Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:02:19 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] VST (tick elimination) is now available |
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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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