From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
kaber@trash.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Make net watchdog timers 1 sec jiffy aligned
Date: 31 May 2007 12:36:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73ejkxe0ut.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070530213541.GA13953@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> writes:
>
> If this does not work:
> Another option is to use 'deferrable timer' here which will be called at
> same as before time when CPU is busy and on idle CPU it will be delayed until
> CPU comes out of idle due to any other events.
That would sound like a good idea here and at least power wise
it should be nearly free
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-31 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-29 18:01 [PATCH 3/4] Make net watchdog timers 1 sec jiffy aligned Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-30 17:59 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-30 18:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-30 18:42 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-05-30 19:15 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-30 19:32 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-05-30 19:55 ` David Miller
2007-05-30 20:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-30 21:35 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-31 10:36 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-05-30 21:10 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-30 22:10 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-30 22:29 ` David Miller
2007-05-30 22:36 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-30 23:02 ` David Miller
2007-06-01 4:30 ` David Miller
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