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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:58:35 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> To: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "arjan@...radead.org" <arjan@...radead.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] Imprecise timers. Hi! > Instead a rounded timer after 5 seconds still ensures atleast 1s idle time on > the CPU without the overhead. > > There can be many users who really don't care about the deadline or can happliy > use rounded timers or deferrable timers. Say garbage collectors, cache_reap > and friends, ondemand governor, vga cursor blinking comes to my mind. Ok, maybe. But don't try to play with vga cursor blinking; any irregularity there will be _very_ visible_. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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