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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [patch] change futex_wait() to hrtimers
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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: 12 Mar 2007 12:27:30 +0100
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> 
> the only correct approach is the use of hrtimers, and a patch exists for 
> that - see below. This has been included in -rt for quite some time.

But isn't that bad for power management? You'll likely get more
idle wakeups, won't you?

-Andi