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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 10:57:19 +0200 From: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com> To: Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>, khilman@...aro.org, Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: TIckless Timers On Laptops and Battery Enabled Devices On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com> wrote: > I am been thinking , this is just a idea but can we enable the kernel > to be tick less for laptops when they are on battery. I don't have any > laptop on me to test but if > someone can test the battery on a tick less kernel versus non tick > less to see if it increases battery. It would be good if we can test > when it's in standby , high cpu usage > and average work to see if it's a good idea to enable a tick less > kernel for default when a user is on battery for laptops and perhaps > even get into the embedded boards > that run on battery and/or cellphones if it's a great help in > increasing battery. I will also be glad to help these features into > the mainline kernel if they are of use to saving > battery. > Cheers Nick Seriously, are you trolling us? This can't be real. -- Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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