Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:26:27 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: various laptop nagles - any suggestions? (note: 2.6.19-rc2-mm1 but applies to multiple kernels) |
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:13:54 +0200 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > Also, NO_HZ breaks my laptop (and presumably quite a few others) quite > > horridly, which means nobody can ship the feature. Some runtime > > turn-it-off work needs to be done there. > > We can make a commandline switch as for highres. Is that sufficient ?
I doubt it.
I don't know how many machines will be affected by this, but I'd expect it's quite a few - the Vaio has a less-than-one-year-old Intel CPU in it.
I'd expect that if a distro were to enable NO_HZ, they'd have a large number of unhappy users whose machines run like crap, some of whom would find out that they need to add some funny dont-run-like-crap option and some of whom would, after wasting considerable amounts of time, just give up and use windows or RH5.2 or something.
IOW, it would be vastly better to make it simply work out-of-the-box. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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