On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:00:20PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:27 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > the only correct approach is the use of hrtimers, and a patch exists for > > > that - see below. This has been included in -rt for quite some time. > > > > But isn't that bad for power management? You'll likely get more > > idle wakeups, won't you? > > Why so ? It comes more precise, but only once.
When it's clustered around the jiffies interval then wakeups from multiple processes will be somewhat batched. With a precise wakeup you'll get wakeups all over the jiffies period, won't you? -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
