lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2005]   [May]   [8]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [more markup]  [less markup]  [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [RFC] (How to) Let idle CPUs sleep
FromArjan van de Ven <>
DateSun, 08 May 2005 15:44:14 +0200
> But it has to be *really* lightweight because these transistion can
> happen a lot (consider a CPU that very often goes to sleep for a short time)

lightweight is good of course. But even if it's medium weight.. it just
means you need to be REALLY idle (eg for longer time) for it to trigger.
I guess we need some sort of per arch "idleness threshhold" for this.


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-05-08 15:48    [from the cache]
©2003-2008