On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:14:28AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >+2. Many architectures will place dyntick-idle CPUs into deep sleep > >+ states, which further degrades from-idle transition latencies. > >+ > I think this part should just be deleted. > On x86, the deeper idle states are even used with non-tickless system (the break even times are > quite a bit less than even 1 msec). > I can't imagine that ARM is worse on this, at which point the statement above is highly dubious Interesting point, and I freely admit that I don't have full knowledge of the energy-consumption characteristics of all the architectures that Linux supports. Adding a few of the ARM guys on CC for their take, plus linux-rt-users. If there are no objections, I will delete point 2 above as Arjan suggests. Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
