[linux-pm] [RFD] Automatic suspend

[Arve Hjønnevåg]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at infradead.org> 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.

I thought the point of range timers was to align multiple timers so
they wakeup at the same time, not to throttle individual timers.

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Arve Hjønnevåg