From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754839AbYIKDan (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:30:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752489AbYIKDad (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:30:33 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:33103 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752412AbYIKDad (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:30:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:28:03 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, peterz@infradead.org Subject: 3 further range-hrtimer patches Message-ID: <20080910202803.42b5f251@infradead.org> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, as reply to this email I have 3 further patches for the range-hrtimer patchkit: Patch 1 and 2 change the futex and nanosleep code to also use range-hrtimers with the per process slack Patch 3 adds a "peek-a-timer" capability; this is used from the cpuidle loop to run any soft-expired timers just before looking at how long we'll be idle (for determining the C-state etc); that way we'll have a longer idle period. I'll add these patches to the git tree in a day or two, adjusted for comments based on this posting -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org