Re: [RFC] Dynamic Tick and Deferrable Timer Support

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

On Thu 2009-01-29 09:36:00, john stultz wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com> wrote:
> > Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> > I have spent several weeks trying to suppress kernel timers using the
> > deferred timers and lengthen the sleep time. I am now able to get the device
> > to sleep for minutes but I found that max_delta_ns is a limiting factor. I
> > will be surprised if you can sleep for longer than ~2.15 seconds with the
> > current implementation.
> 
> As an aside, there are some further hardware limitations in the
> timekeeping core that limit the amount of time the hardware can sleep.
> For instance, the acpi_pm clocksource wraps every 2.5 seconds or so,
> so we have to wake up periodically to sample it to avoid wrapping
> issues.
> 
> Just to be able to deal with all the different hardware out there, the
> timekeeping core expects to wake up twice a second to do this
> sampling. It may be possible to push this out if you are using other

That's strange... I think I seen less than 2 wakeups per second on
powertop...? (thinkpad x60, nothing exotic).
								Pavel

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