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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,
	npiggin@suse.de, drepper@redhat.com, oleg@tv-sign.ru,
	sebastien.dugue@bull.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] change futex_wait() to hrtimers
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:22:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070312142216.GA15357@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070312141214.GG4372@thunk.org>

> This becomes especially important if we want the tickless code to
> really shine as far as power management is concerned.  Unfortunately,
> the POSIX timer abstraction doesn't give this kind of flexibility
> easily, so it's going to be a while before we see significant
> userspace adoption of such a kernel feature, but I think it's
> something that would be still worthwhile to add.

I suspect it would be overkill to specify that on every sleep operation.
99% of applications won't care and for the 1% leftover a global per 
process setting should be fine.
I think a single prctl() and a global sysctl as default would be enough.

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-12 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200703110814.l2B8EaI1007615@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
     [not found] ` <20070312011259.3834A1801C4@magilla.sf.frob.com>
2007-03-12  9:10   ` [patch] change futex_wait() to hrtimers Ingo Molnar
2007-03-12  9:16     ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-12 11:02       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-12 11:13         ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-12 11:19           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-12 11:29             ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-12 11:38               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-12 11:52                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-12 12:21                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-12 12:36                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-12 11:19         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-12 11:27     ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-12 11:00       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-12 10:58         ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-12 11:04           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-12 11:20             ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-12 11:28               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-12 14:12           ` Theodore Tso
2007-03-12 14:22             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-03-12 14:31             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-12 14:32             ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-15  0:03 linux

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