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To: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Make net watchdog timers 1 sec jiffy aligned
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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: 31 May 2007 12:36:26 +0200
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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