[linux-pm] [RFD] Automatic suspend

[mark gross]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:04:21PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:32:46 -0600
> "Woodruff, Richard" <r-woodruff2 at ti.com> wrote:
> 
> > > so use range timers / timer slack for those apps that you do not
> > > trust. That is not a big deal, and solves the issue of timer
> > > wakeups...
> > 
> > I not so sure it is that straight forward in practice.  End systems
> > integrate a lot of 3rd party software who view performance 1st and
> > have no thought of power.
> 
> you know that with the range timers/slack, you can control the
> "rounding" of the timer of the application, right?
> You can *directly* throttle the number of wakeups an application causes
> that way to a value you set.
> 

As the application code is mostly managed it should be a slam dunk to
make range timers work withing the android framework or Dalvik layers.

--mgross