-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lee Revell wrote: > On 3/7/07, Robin Gareus <robin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> PS. can anyone shed some light on the CONFIG_NO_HZ option - seems like >> it saves quite some power. Does it affect realtime performance. can it >> be disabled at runtime? >> > > Should not affect realtime performance - it was judged stable enough > for mainline and I've seen no reports on LKML of it causing problems. > >> PPS. i've usually disabled freq. scaling during audio-work as there were >> x-runs when the cpu speed changed. this does no longer seem to be the >> case.. is it still a good habit to shut down powernowd ? > > JACK was fixed to use gettimeofday() as the clock source so disabling > frequency scaling should no longer be needed. cool. I am already 10 mins into the compiling a tickless kernel (branch prediction pipelined it) and will report back if there's trouble! Robin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF7xVUeVUk8U+VK0IRAnHRAKCkGnlqn2lr+8Y7Ns8S0ngemYaSqACfahyz EVfSyQxrd9KpA9KPc6Px79o= =Ukej -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
