On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:32:46 -0600 "Woodruff, Richard" <r-woodruff2@xxxxxx> wrote: > > 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... > > I not so sure it is that straight forward in practice. End systems > integrate a lot of 3rd party software who view performance 1st and > have no thought of power. you know that with the range timers/slack, you can control the "rounding" of the timer of the application, right? You can *directly* throttle the number of wakeups an application causes that way to a value you set. -- 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