On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:51:41 +0000 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:46:30AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > 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. > > Remember that Android has an open marketplace designed to appeal to > Java programmers - users are going to end up downloading code from > there and then blaming the platform if their battery life heads > towards zero. I think "We can't trust our userland not to be dumb" is > a valid concern. so use range timers / timer slack for those apps that you do not trust. That is not a big deal, and solves the issue of timer wakeups... -- 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
