[ltp] HPET timer on thinkpads?

[Clark Williams]

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Dan Sawyer wrote:
> I found the no_hz config parm prevented the cpu from running at lower
> clock speeds.
> 

You mean that it prevented the system from reducing the clock speed past a certain
point? Not really sure how it could do that.

As I understand it, the main thing it does is turn off periodic interrupts if the
system enters the idle loop (which generally means a halt instruction on x86 boxes).

I don't think that it should effect how the kernel governors adjust clock speed.

Clark
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