On ons, 2007-09-26 at 22:27 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > David Brownell wrote: > > This patch gets rid of a major annoyance: it stops the "use NO_HZ!" > > suggestions on x86_64 and other platforms which can't support it. > > Hi, > > I both agree and disagree with this. x86_64 does support NO_HZ, you > just need a 2.6.24 kernel or the -hrt patchkit. So I agree the current > message isn't correct.... but I don't think just making it go away is > right either; PowerTOP should suggest getting a tickless kernel in > that case. > > > > > This lets the other messages -- the ones which could actually do some > > good on this system!! -- be seen. Else, it seems like the impossible > > NO_HZ suggestion is the only one ever visible. > > hmm that would be a bug; in principle the messages should rotate (but > with a priority bias); it could be the priorities are just off...
Would it be possible to add a command to get to the next suggestion, or maybe even a way to navigate among the active suggestions. Even with the rotation it seems you mostly ends up with the wrong message, so some user control here would be nice. /MF _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
