Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend

Woodruff, Richard
2009-02-18T15:20:02Z

> > 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...
>
> So have userspace say something like "The screen is turned off now,
> change the timer precision on all untrusted userland to sub 10 seconds"?
> That would work.

I also made a similar comment in thread to Arjan yesterday.

He did respond saying there was a pctrl to hit this. If it's a big list it might be messy. Unless it can be global. Probably would be good to look at code rather than speculate.