Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Oct 2007 07:06:36 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: x86_64 and AMD with C1E |
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:09:53 +0200
> There is normally a threshold above which you don't save significantly > more power by doing less timer interrupts. You can test this > by doing the CONFIG_HZ=100 above.
however the point you're describing tends to more be around 25ms to 50ms.... HZ=100 is only a first rough test (and HZ=100 does have userspace visibility, multimedia playback suffers due to the decreased accuracy) - 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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