Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

Ondrej Zary wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 02:13:15 Robert Hancock wrote: Looks like the radeon driver has the same problem as the i915 driver mentioned on the known problems page - I get 60 wakeups/sec from it on my Compaq X1000 laptop (Radeon 9000 graphics) while in X, which essentially

Re: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

Ondrej Zary wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 02:13:15 Robert Hancock wrote: Looks like the radeon driver has the same problem as the i915 driver mentioned on the known problems page - I get 60 wakeups/sec from it on my Compaq X1000 laptop (Radeon 9000 graphics) while in X, which essentially

Re: Question: schedule()

Mockern wrote: Hi, What does schedule() function do? I want to make my kthread preemptive. It makes a scheduling decision, i.e. it assigns the CPU time to a suitable runnable task. If called with the current task's state set to TASK_(UN)INTERRUPTIBLE, it puts the task to sleep. Kernel

Re: Question: schedule()

Mockern wrote: Hi, What does schedule() function do? I want to make my kthread preemptive. It makes a scheduling decision, i.e. it assigns the CPU time to a suitable runnable task. If called with the current task's state set to TASK_(UN)INTERRUPTIBLE, it puts the task to sleep. Kernel