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From: Arjan van de Ven
Subject: Re: [Discuss] [PATCH] ipmi: use round_jiffies on timers to reduce timer overhead/wakeups
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 1:57 pm

Corey Minyard wrote:

... but now it burns quite a bit of power (I'd not be surprised if it is 10 Watts extra on a 70W server)

is there any way to poll slowly until there is active ipmi traffic, during which we can then poll a bit faster.
... and then go back to slow polling when there is an ipmi idle period ?
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[PATCH] ipmi: use round_jiffies on timers to reduce timer ..., Randy Dunlap, (Wed Oct 21, 10:28 am)
Re: [PATCH] ipmi: use round_jiffies on timers to reduce ti ..., Arjan van de Ven, (Wed Oct 21, 11:42 am)
Re: [Discuss] [PATCH] ipmi: use round_jiffies on timers to ..., Kok, Auke, (Wed Oct 21, 11:49 am)
Re: [Discuss] [PATCH] ipmi: use round_jiffies on timers to ..., Randy Dunlap, (Wed Oct 21, 1:03 pm)
Re: [Discuss] [PATCH] ipmi: use round_jiffies on timers to ..., Corey Minyard, (Wed Oct 21, 1:22 pm)
Re: [Discuss] [PATCH] ipmi: use round_jiffies on timers to ..., Arjan van de Ven, (Wed Oct 21, 1:57 pm)
RE: [Openipmi-developer] [Discuss] [PATCH] ipmi: use round ..., Bela Lubkin, (Wed Oct 21, 4:46 pm)
Re: [Discuss] [PATCH] ipmi: use round_jiffies on timers to ..., Matt Domsch, (Wed Oct 21, 7:50 pm)
Re: ipmi: use round_jiffies on timers to reduce timer over ..., Corey Minyard, (Thu Oct 22, 9:45 am)
RE: [Openipmi-developer] [Discuss] [PATCH] ipmi: use round ..., Bela Lubkin, (Thu Oct 22, 12:12 pm)
Re: [Openipmi-developer] [Discuss] [PATCH] ipmi: use round ..., Corey Minyard, (Thu Oct 22, 1:02 pm)
RE: [Openipmi-developer] [Discuss] [PATCH] ipmi: use round ..., Bela Lubkin, (Thu Oct 22, 3:16 pm)