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    SubjectRe: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans
    Hi!

    > > > would be nice to merge the -hrt queue that goes right ontop this
    > > > queue. Even if HIGH_RES_TIMERS is "default n" in the beginning. That
    > > > gives us high-res timers and dynticks which are both very important
    > > > features to certain classes of users/devices.
    > >
    > > dynticks give benefit of 0.3W, or 20minutes (IIRC) from 8hours on
    > > thinkpad x60... and they were around for way too long. (When baseline
    > > is hz=250, it is 0.5W from hz=1000 baseline). It would be cool to
    > > finally merge them.
    >
    > note that this is a new implementation of dynticks though, not Con's
    > older stuff which you probably used, right? But it's fairly low-impact

    (Well, I cheated, and just measured difference between HZ=100 and
    HZ=250/1000. Dynticks should be even slightly better than that.)
    Pavel

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