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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:04:21 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To: "Woodruff, Richard" <r-woodruff2@...com>
Cc: Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:32:46 -0600
"Woodruff, Richard" <r-woodruff2@...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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