[ltp] HPET timer on thinkpads?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Clark Williams wrote:
> > But -hrt is NOT about power consumption control, it is about real-time
> > behaviour.
> 
> Not strictly true. The -hrt patch is mostly about improving timer
> granularity above the standard system clock tick. In addition the NO_HZ
> mechanism really is targeted at reducing power consumption, by reducing
> the number of interrupts the system has to service when in idle state.
> 
> The -rt patch (which includes the -hrt patch) is about real-time behavior.

I stand corrected, I got the hrt and rt patches mixed up in my head. Thanks.

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