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SubjectRe: [patch] change futex_wait() to hrtimers
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:00:20PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:27 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> > >
> > > the only correct approach is the use of hrtimers, and a patch exists for
> > > that - see below. This has been included in -rt for quite some time.
> >
> > But isn't that bad for power management? You'll likely get more
> > idle wakeups, won't you?
>
> Why so ? It comes more precise, but only once.

When it's clustered around the jiffies interval then wakeups from
multiple processes will be somewhat batched. With a precise wakeup you'll
get wakeups all over the jiffies period, won't you?

-Andi
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