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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>,
	Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@samsung.com>,
	kyungmin.park@samsung.com, cw00.choi@samsung.com
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 0/5] hrtimers: Add deferrable mode
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:02:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <530D5935.9010104@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140221173936.583477951@linutronix.de>

On 02/21/2014 09:56 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Deferrable timers are beneficial for power saving. They behave like
> standard timers except that their expiry can be delayed up to the
> expiry of the next non deferred timer. That prevents them from waking
> up cpus from deep idle periods.

What does this accomplish that can't be done with hrtimers with enormous
slack?

--Andy

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-26  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-21 17:56 [RFC patch 0/5] hrtimers: Add deferrable mode Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-21 17:56 ` [RFC patch 1/5] hrtimer: Always check for HRTIMER_MODE_REL Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-25 11:56   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-21 17:56 ` [RFC patch 3/5] hrtimer: Add support for deferrable hrtimers Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-21 17:56 ` [RFC patch 2/5] hrtimer: Make use of the active bases bitfield Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-25 12:01   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-21 17:56 ` [RFC patch 4/5] posix-timers: Expose deferrable mode to user space Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-21 17:56 ` [RFC patch 5/5] timerfd: " Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-25  8:36   ` Richard Cochran
2014-02-26  3:02 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]

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