Re: VST patches ported to 2.6.11-rc1

[George Anzinger]

George Anzinger wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> >
> > > I really hate sf download system... Here are those patches (only
> > > common+i386) ported to 2.6.11-rc1.
> >
> >
> >
> > Good news is it booted. But I could not measure any powersavings by
> > turning it on. (I could measure difference between HZ=100 and
> > HZ=1000).
> >
> > Hmm, it does not want to do anything. threshold used to be 1000, does
> > it mean that it would not use vst unless there was one second of quiet
> > state? I tried to lower it to 10 ("get me HZ=100 power consumption")
> > but it does not seem to be used, anyway:

I wonder if the problem is that we are not disabling the PIT interrupt.  I have 
a PIII SMP system so the interrupt path may be different and the code to stop 
interrupts may be wrong.  The normal system does not admit to stopping the time 
base so it is possible that this is wrong.

-g


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