Re: [PATCH 4/5] select: make select() use schedule_hrtimeout()

Alan Cox
2008-08-29T18:50:59Z

> And yes, I do agree that the heuristic could well involve other
> characteristics of the process in question. And probably characteristics
> of the machine itself (ie some general kind of "power mode" where timers
> are simply not considered critical if you want to be in low-power mode).

HAL and dbus already deal with this sort of stuff, including now having a
notion of 'on battery' and the like so if its in sysfs it ceases to be
the kernels problem ;)