Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:33:09 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/5] select: make select() use schedule_hrtimeout() |
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> And yes, I do agree that the heuristic could well involve other > characteristics of the process in question. And probably characteristics > of the machine itself (ie some general kind of "power mode" where timers > are simply not considered critical if you want to be in low-power mode).
HAL and dbus already deal with this sort of stuff, including now having a notion of 'on battery' and the like so if its in sysfs it ceases to be the kernels problem ;)
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