Linux 6.2 Likely To Enjoy Measurable Power-Savings While Idle Or Lightly Loaded

[marios]

Google android in a nutshell:

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PS: I am a huge fan of kernel microoptimisations

[nkalkhof]

Looking forward to see some power drain tests on a CFL CPU

[gabber]

Nice, will there be a test about this? I usually need my laptop battery when travelling to and during conferences. Taking notes in a texteditor 5-10 min/h, surfing the web for 5-10min/h.
Not sure how easy it is to simulate typing into an editor / surfing the web but it would be interesting to see how differnt HW/ OS / Kernel etc. perform.

[caligula]

Just when I thought 6.1 would be the perfect LTS...

The latest (not necessarily LTS) release always contains the most interesting features.

[halo9en]

Just when I thought 6.1 would be the perfect LTS...

[Danny3]

Wonderful!
So nice to see many great improvements for 6.2.
Too bad this is not the LTS kernel.

[milkylainen]

At what point does it stop batching?
Procrastination has it's own set of issues.

[bezirg]

Amazing work, 5-10% sounds small in the beginning, but with today's apus and battery sizes it may translate to 1+ hours of battery life

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.2 Likely To Enjoy Measurable Power-Savings While Idle Or Lightly Loaded

Work carried out by Google engineers around the Linux kernel's read-copy update (RCU) synchronization mechanism to make it "lazier" is helping with 5~10% power-savings for idle or lightly-loaded systems. This "Lazy RCU" work is likely to be merged for the Linux 6.2 kernel merge window in December...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lazy-RCU-Likely-For-Linux-6.2