Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.15-ck1 | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:55:53 +1100 |
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On Thursday 05 January 2006 17:42, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:22:37AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> writes: > > > sounds like we need some sort of profiler or benchmarker or at least a > > > tool that helps finding out which timers are regularly firing, with the > > > aim at either grouping them or trying to reduce their disturbance in > > > some form. > > > > I did one some time ago for my own noidletick patch. Can probably dig > > it out again. It just profiled which timers interrupted idle. > > > > Executive summary for my laptop: worst was the keyboard driver (it ran > > some polling driver to work around some hardware bug, but fired very > > often) , followed by the KDE desktop (should be mostly > > fixed now, I complained) and the X server and some random kernel > > drivers. > > > > I haven't checked recently if keyboard has been fixed by now. > > It's not. At this moment it's impossible to remove without significant > surgery to the driver, because it'd prevent hotplugging and many KVMs > from working. > > I can rather easily make the timer frequency variable. Would be 1 second > idle ticks OK?
Sure. The lower the better, and HZ with dynticks bottoms out at 14HZ.
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