> IIUC, it's not to help or optimize polling itself. It just gives us a > way to estimate when the next interrupt would be so that power can be > optimized for non polling cases. Shouldn't the idle governour estimate this already? BTW I looked at something like this for networking. There was one case where a network benchmark was impacted by deep sleep states while processing packets. But in the end it turned out to be mostly a broken BIOS that gave wrong parameters to the idle governour. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
