Re: [PATCH -tip-rcu] Make rcutorture more vicious: make quiescent rcutorture less power-hungry

Ingo Molnar
2008-06-24T11:38:10Z

* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > could you also make it use round_jiffies_relative() to make the
> > power impact even less..... (by coalescing various "once a second"
> > timers like this)
>
> Good point!!! As follows, on top of the previous one.
>
> This patch aligns the rcutorture wakeup times to align with all other
> multiple-of-a-second wakeups to further decrease power consumption.
>
> Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

applied to tip/core/rcu - thanks Paul.

Ingo