Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Dec 2013 19:34:25 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add the LED burst trigger | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:13 PM, One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: >> Plus, it will actually save CPU cycles, and thus significant power. > > All of which will be totally wiped out if you bump all the millions of > x86 server boxes in the world up by one page of kernel space and cause a > few disk I/Os
FWIW, the former is on battery power, the latter isn't.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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