On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:20:01 -0800 Brian Swetland <swetland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Of course that still doesn't address userspace. Aggressively going to > suspend lets us compensate for userspace programs that do somewhat > silly things (I agree that it would be best if they didn't but they > do and getting *everyone* to write their userspace code to avoid > spinning or avoid waking up on short-duration timers to poll is a > losing battle). actually with powertop... on the open source side things are actually won. It took all of 6 months... I don't see that as a valid excuse. In fact, if this kind of solution makes real userspace scheduled timers to be missed then I consider it a serious functionality misfeature. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
