From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
ego@in.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu,
andi@firstfloor.org, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com,
vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] timers: Timer migration
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:37:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081016073749.4f944a19@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081016114239.GA7641@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:12:39 +0530
>
>
> Here's a brief introduction as to why we need timer migration.
>
as I've said before, for reducing power consumption I don't buy into
needing this concept....
If you have high frequency timers, you've lost no matter what (and we
fixed almost all of them in the ecosystem); if you don't have those
then this patch doesn't really add anything.
(and the range-hrtimers fixes the intermediate state)
--
Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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visit http://www.lesswatts.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-16 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-16 11:42 [RFC PATCH 0/4] timers: Timer migration Arun R Bharadwaj
2008-10-16 14:37 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-10-17 2:43 ` [linux-pm] " Tian, Kevin
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