Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3

[Jeffrey Hundstad]

Con Kolivas wrote:

> This is the dynamic ticks patch for i386 as written by Tony Lindgen 
> <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> and Tuukka Tikkanen <tuukka.tikkanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. 
> Patch for 2.6.13-rc5
>
> There were a couple of things that I wanted to change so here is an updated 
> version. This code should have stabilised enough for general testing now.
>
> The sysfs interface was moved to its own directory 
> in /sys/devices/system/dyn_tick and split into separate files to 
> enable/disable dynamic ticks and usage of apic on the fly. It makes sense to 
> enable dynamic ticks and usage of apic by default if they're actually built 
> into the kernel so that is now done.
>  

I am successfully running the dynamic tick patch on an old IBM ThinkPad 
A22m.  When I enable the APIC support console beeps, you know bash -c 
'echo -e "\a"', takes a REALLY long time to finish.  I'm assuming this 
is a badly written program and not a kernel problem.  Correct?

BTW: how do you know what HZ your machine is running at?

--
Jeffrey Hundstad

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