[ltp] HPET timer on thinkpads?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Igor V. Rafienko wrote:
> on Oct 23, 2007, 07:37, Nils wrote:
>>> that draws about 1.3W *more* than 2.6.22 without the hpet-patches. Does 
>>> anyone else experience that?
>>
>> Yes, I've the same problem with the T41p and 2.6.23.1-hrt3. (I thought it 
>> was a problem with slub or slab allocator, but the power consumption is 
>> the same with both allocators.)
>
> Hmm... this cannot possibly be the intention of the patch.

Test pure 2.6.23.1 first.  Or don't, 2.6.23 has some bad problems in ACPI,
that are probably going to get fixed in 2.6.23.2.

But -hrt is NOT about power consumption control, it is about real-time
behaviour.

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