[patch powertop svn] don't suggest NO_HZ unless it's possible!
Arjan van de Ven
arjan at linux.intel.com
Wed Sep 26 22:27:12 PDT 2007
David Brownell wrote:
> This patch gets rid of a major annoyance: it stops the "use NO_HZ!"
> suggestions on x86_64 and other platforms which can't support it.
Hi,
I both agree and disagree with this. x86_64 does support NO_HZ, you
just need a 2.6.24 kernel or the -hrt patchkit. So I agree the current
message isn't correct.... but I don't think just making it go away is
right either; PowerTOP should suggest getting a tickless kernel in
that case.
>
> This lets the other messages -- the ones which could actually do some
> good on this system!! -- be seen. Else, it seems like the impossible
> NO_HZ suggestion is the only one ever visible.
hmm that would be a bug; in principle the messages should rotate (but
with a priority bias); it could be the priorities are just off...
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