Re: Liunx power consumption on laptops -- Enormous progress in the last few months

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:02:10 EDT, Dave Jones said:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 09:35:24AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
>  > > Where is the ondemand-fix.patch? I can't find any link to it.
>  > 
>  > just click on it in the graph ;_
>  > 
>  > it's also http://www.linuxpowertop.org/patches/ondemand-fix.patch 
>  > (which is submitted already to the maintainers)
> 
> Should be in cpufreq.git (and thus, -mm) too, waiting for .23 to open up.

Somebody should fix http://ww.linuxpowertop.org/known.php then, it says:

"The kernels ondemand CPU frequency management function currently has a
high-frequency timer that samples to see if the CPU is idle. Intel fixed this
and the patches to the kernel to effectively remove this timer are included in
Linus' tree as of 2.6.22-rc1."

which confused me no end when I was looking at this stuff and wondering why
it was in the -mm tree if Linus already picked it up. :)

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