Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:19:20 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, v10 3/3] cgroups: introduce timer slack controller |
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 05:11:00PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 15:59 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > I'm not saying that it's a problem. I'm saying that your approach > > changes behavioural semantics in a way that may violate application > > expectations just as surely as changing the timer behaviour does. > > There's no free approach. > > I'm not saying its free, I'm saying its a much better approach since it > gets rid of the entire problem instead of papering over the worst of it.
It solves it for a specific case, ie animations. Any other timer driven behaviour continues. It really does need to be tied to session idle, not application visibility, and enforcement at the X level does nothing to help that.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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