The real next step

The real next step

Posted Dec 17, 2004 12:15 UTC (Fri) by xav (guest, #18536)
In reply to: The next step by bronson
Parent article: Boot-time clock frequency selection

The Real Next Step would be to totally get rid of the timer interrupt, and thus have the processor really sleeping when the system is idle. There have already been some patches on lkml a while ago, I don't remember why they were not merged but I liked the idea very much.

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