From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: suspend blockers & Android integration Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 16:34:11 -0700 Message-ID: <20100605163411.6c561fbf@infradead.org> References: <20100603193045.GA7188@elte.hu> <20100603231153.GA11302@elte.hu> <20100603232302.GA16184@elte.hu> <20100604071354.GA14451@elte.hu> <20100604083423.GD15181@elte.hu> <1275653210.27810.39762.camel@twins> <1275731653.27810.41078.camel@twins> <20100605092851.6ee15f13@infradead.org> <20100605152326.7ccd5160@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:49560 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933664Ab0FEXbp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jun 2010 19:31:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Arve =?UTF-8?B?SGrDuG5uZXbDpWc=?= Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , tytso@mit.edu, Brian Swetland , Neil Brown , Thomas Gleixner , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alan Stern , Felipe Balbi , LKML , Florian Mickler , Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linux PM , Alan Cox , James Bottomley , Linus Torvalds , Kevin Hilman , "H. Peter Anvin" On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 15:39:44 -0700 Arve Hj=C3=B8nnev=C3=A5g wrote: > > > > For example if the Adobe Flash player puts a timer every 10 > > milliseconds (yes it does that), and you give it a 3.99 seconds > > range, it will fire its timers every 4 seconds.... unless other > > activity happens independently, at which point it'll align with > > that instead. > > >=20 > If you do that what you are delivering is nowhere close to what the > app asked for.=20 yeah it feels a little bit suspended=20 > You don't need range timers for this, you could just as > well add 4 seconds to all normal timers. =2E. with the difference that with range timers, you naturally align wi= th other activity, so if there's system level activity, the AVERAGE servic= e the app gets is better by a LOT than just adding 4 seconds always. but you knew that.... just doesn't help your case. --=20 Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre =46or development, discussion and tips for power savings,=20 visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html