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From: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
To: leonid.moiseichuk@nokia.com
Cc: penberg@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rientjes@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmevent: Use 'struct vmevent_attr' for vmevent_fd() ABI
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 17:22:28 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120307132228.GA30159@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84FF21A720B0874AA94B46D76DB9826904581EF7@008-AM1MPN1-003.mgdnok.nokia.com>

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 07:53:37AM +0000, leonid.moiseichuk@nokia.com wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ext Anton Vorontsov [mailto:anton.vorontsov@linaro.org]
> > Sent: 07 March, 2012 01:00
> > To: Pekka Enberg
> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Moiseichuk Leonid (Nokia-MP/Espoo);
> ...
> > Sorry for hijacking this thread, but speaking of big changes. Are there any
> > plans or ideas to add other methods of sampling, i.e. something not timer-
> > based?
> ...
> > Though, current vmevent seems not so lightweigh in sense of battery usage
> > and accuracy (i.e. how quick we're able to detect the crossed threshold). To
> > get better accuracy we would need to run timer at higher frequencies, but
> > then we would waste more battery.
> 
> One of patch I sent was about switching to deferred timer. This API should not be 100% accurate first, and using deferred
> timers will allow to sleep properly when system has no activity. I hope Pekka will accept the next patch as well.

Nice idea!

Thanks,

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-07 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-06 20:51 [PATCH] vmevent: Use 'struct vmevent_attr' for vmevent_fd() ABI Pekka Enberg
2012-03-06 22:59 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-03-07  7:53   ` leonid.moiseichuk
2012-03-07 10:03     ` Pekka Enberg
2012-03-07 13:22     ` Anton Vorontsov [this message]
2012-03-07 10:08   ` Pekka Enberg

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