178187 – kernel patch to reduce too-frequent timers

Bug 178187 - kernel patch to reduce too-frequent timers

Summary: kernel patch to reduce too-frequent timers

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

URL:	http://www.linuxpowertop.org/known.php
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Duplicates (1):	178410 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2007-05-12 13:07 UTC by Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini
Modified:	2007-05-13 19:52 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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kernel-2.6.21.patch (kernel-2.6.21.patch,3.90 KB, patch) 2007-05-12 13:08 UTC, Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini	Details \| Diff
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Description Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini 2007-05-12 13:07:23 UTC

Hi,

Can you insert the patch proposed by powertop website to reduce the too-frequent timers. This increase the battery life.

thanks

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini 2007-05-12 13:08:11 UTC

Created attachment 118998 [details, diff]
kernel-2.6.21.patch

Patch (modified) from www.linuxpowertop.org

Comment 2 Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini 2007-05-12 13:10:16 UTC

The proposed patch is successful applied to suspend2-2.6.21-r1 kernel, but that is ok also for the gentoo-sources-2.6.21 so.

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-12 13:14:52 UTC

Thanks, but such patches belong upstream, please review http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/faq.htm

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/
http://bugzilla.suspend2.net/

Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-13 19:52:58 UTC

*** Bug 178410 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***