From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
patchwork-lst@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] PM / Runtime: use deferrable timer for autosuspend
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:02:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160113190220.GC9821@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452619040-27137-2-git-send-email-l.stach@pengutronix.de>
On Tue 2016-01-12 18:17:20, Lucas Stach wrote:
> The timeouts used in PM autosuspend are relatively coarse (the shortest
> I could find in a quick search through the kernel is 50ms). As they are
> already handled relaxed by saving the overhead of always rearming the
> timer by opportunistically suspending a device a bit early, it should
> not matter if the the timeout is missed slightly.
>
> By using a deferrable timer the CPU will not be woken just to handle
> the autosuspend timeout, but handling will be batched with other
> wakeups in the system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-13 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-12 17:17 [PATCH 1/2] timer: add setup_deferrable_timer macro Lucas Stach
2016-01-12 17:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] PM / Runtime: use deferrable timer for autosuspend Lucas Stach
2016-01-13 19:02 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2016-01-19 0:28 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-01-26 17:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] timer: add setup_deferrable_timer macro Thomas Gleixner
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