Re: [chrony-dev] [contrib] unidled: a linux idle management daemon for chronyd/gpsd

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On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 09:34 +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 06:17:33PM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> > The timing is controlled by the pps device which effectively is
> > created
> > by gpsd when the serial line discipline is set to pps. In the
> > default
> > setting of unidled a single core is switched to poll mode for 0.2%
> > of
> > the time, keeping the CPU cool while still allowing for a high
> > precision.
> 
> Very interesting. Someone was asking for magic like this couple weeks
> ago on the chrony-user list. :)
> 
> > If there is interest in this code feel free to include it e.g. in
> > the
> > contrib directory and to enhance it for other OSes.
> 
> As this is not really specific to chrony or gpsd (there are other
> applications that use PPS), I'd suggest to put it on github or
> similar. I'll add a link to it on the chrony website.

Done: https://github.com/not1337/pps-stuff

> 
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> Miroslav Lichvar
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