Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:46:30 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend |
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:20:01 -0800 Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com> wrote:
> Of course that still doesn't address userspace. Aggressively going to > suspend lets us compensate for userspace programs that do somewhat > silly things (I agree that it would be best if they didn't but they > do and getting *everyone* to write their userspace code to avoid > spinning or avoid waking up on short-duration timers to poll is a > losing battle).
actually with powertop... on the open source side things are actually won. It took all of 6 months... I don't see that as a valid excuse. In fact, if this kind of solution makes real userspace scheduled timers to be missed then I consider it a serious functionality misfeature.
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