Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:04:21 -0800 | | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | | Subject | Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend |
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:32:46 -0600 "Woodruff, Richard" <r-woodruff2@ti.com> 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.
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