linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timers

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Message-ID: <20100114015329.402f7b01@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:53:29 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...x.de, mingo@...e.hu,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy
 timers

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:07:55 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> hm.
> 
> Have you any feeling for how much power this sort of thing saves?  I
> guess "change in interrupts per minute" would be easy to measure.

depends on what kind of system obviously. For a laptop, it's not all
that much, but for a cellphone it can be easily 30% to 40% extra
standby power.... a few wakeups per second already is a huge power
delta for those.



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