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From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:32:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240345936.6080.6.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090421063523.GA8020@elte.hu>

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 08:35 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com> wrote:
> > Anyway, making this change has allowed my 32-bit machine to sleep 
> > for longer than ~2.15 seconds and thought this could be of 
> > interest to others. Your comments/feedback would be appreciated.
> >
> Looks like a good thing at first sight. Thomas, John, what do you 
> think?

The concern is many clocksources wrap after a handful of seconds. The
acpi_pm is the best example (its only 24 bits wide). 

I brought this issue up earlier, and provided some example code that
could be used to limit the idle time appropriately for the current
clocksource here:

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0901.3/02693.html

Jon: Did you see that mail, or is there a reason you didn't adapt this
code into your patch? 


thanks
-john



  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-21 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-20 21:16 [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds Jon Hunter
2009-04-21  6:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-21 20:32   ` john stultz [this message]
2009-04-21 23:20     ` Jon Hunter
2009-04-22  0:02       ` john stultz
2009-05-07 14:52         ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-08  0:54           ` [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep formore " john stultz
2009-05-08 16:05             ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-09  0:51               ` [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep formorethan " john stultz
2009-05-12 23:35                 ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-12 23:58                   ` [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep formorethan2.15 seconds john stultz
2009-05-13 15:14                     ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-13 16:41                       ` John Stultz
2009-05-13 17:54                         ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-13 19:21                           ` John Stultz
2009-05-15 16:35                             ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-15 18:55                               ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-16  1:29                                 ` John Stultz
2009-05-16  1:18                               ` John Stultz
2009-05-22 18:21                                 ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-22 19:23                                   ` john stultz
2009-05-22 19:54                                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-26 15:12                                       ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-26 20:26                                         ` john stultz
2009-05-22 19:59                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-04-22  0:05       ` [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds john stultz
2009-04-22  3:07         ` Jon Hunter
2009-04-22 15:30           ` Chris Friesen
2009-04-22 17:04             ` Jon Hunter
2009-04-22 18:53               ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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