Magnus Fromreide wrote:
Hello.

I have two minor patches for powertop and a question

many-interupts
        Widen the field to allow for up to 999.99 interupts/second
        without offsetting the : column. (Me, i get 100+ interups as
        soon as I touch the mouse)

modprobe-module-loading
        Acknowledge that not ony insmod but also modprobe might load
        modules


thanks; I've added these both to SVN

On to the question - why does powertop try to hide the interupts that
are generated by powertop itself and by anything named tick_nohz_*?

1) by itself: this would distort the measurement display; powertop will always show up as 1 because it has to end the measurement after X seconds

2) tick_nohz_*: those are "kernel admin" ones; every timer tick will get those *in addition* to the actual waker. So if I would display them it would be double counting, as well as confusing for the user due to the double counting effect.
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