Rocko, Tried it and there wasn't a great deal of difference overall on my Thinkpad X300
The Load balancing ticks dropped some but were replaced by a new item called kworker/0:0
Here is the result from powertop -d
Wakeups-from-idle per second : 226.3 interval: 15.0s no ACPI power usage estimate available Top causes for wakeups: 20.0% ( 28.1) kworker/0:0 13.5% ( 19.0) [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick 13.0% ( 18.3) firefox-bin 12.4% ( 17.4) [extra timer interrupt] 7.1% ( 10.0) nautilus 5.4% ( 7.6) [iwlagn] <interrupt> 3.5% ( 4.9) syndaemon 3.2% ( 4.5) [TLB shootdowns] <kernel IPI> 3.2% ( 4.5) [kernel core] hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer) 2.9% ( 4.1) apt-check 2.5% ( 3.5) [acpi] <interrupt> 2.1% ( 3.0) Xorg
Rocko,
Tried it and there wasn't a great deal of difference overall on my Thinkpad X300
The Load balancing ticks dropped some but
were replaced by a new item called kworker/0:0
Here is the result from powertop -d
Wakeups-from-idle per second : 226.3 interval: 15.0s
no ACPI power usage estimate available
Top causes for wakeups:
20.0% ( 28.1) kworker/0:0
13.5% ( 19.0) [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick
13.0% ( 18.3) firefox-bin
12.4% ( 17.4) [extra timer interrupt]
7.1% ( 10.0) nautilus
5.4% ( 7.6) [iwlagn] <interrupt>
3.5% ( 4.9) syndaemon
3.2% ( 4.5) [TLB shootdowns] <kernel IPI>
3.2% ( 4.5) [kernel core] hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer)
2.9% ( 4.1) apt-check
2.5% ( 3.5) [acpi] <interrupt>
2.1% ( 3.0) Xorg