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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt
    On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:48:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

    > Len Brown, a year ago: "The bottom line number to laptop users is
    > battery lifetime. Just today somebody complained to me that Windows
    > gets twice the battery life that Linux does."

    It seems the motivation for lower HZ is really:

    (1) ACPI/SMM suckage in laptops

    (2) NUMA systems with *horrible* remote memory latencies

    Both can be detected from you .config and we could see HZ as needed
    there and everyone else could avoid this surely?

    The above one year old comment where it says "someone complained"
    makes me wonder if we ever had an original report with hard facts or
    just some internal/private comment/bug about how things seem.

    Surely we can test this accurately?

    > "My expectation is if we want to beat the competition, we'll want
    > the ability to go *under* 100Hz."

    What does Windows do here?

    > Len, any updates on the relationship between HZ and power
    > consumption?

    I can measure this[1] for some *old* hardware but as it has unusable
    behavior for ACPI I'm not sure how useful that is.


    [1] I was just going to remove batteries and run it from a bench
    supply in the lab and measure how much current was being drawn.
    Can anyone suggest something more sensible than that?

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