On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I thought the point of range timers was to align multiple timers so they wakeup at the same time, not to throttle individual timers. -- Arve Hjønnevåg _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
