From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@tglx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] select: make select() use schedule_hrtimeout()
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:33:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080829193309.113d5b64@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808291140010.3300@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
> And yes, I do agree that the heuristic could well involve other
> characteristics of the process in question. And probably characteristics
> of the machine itself (ie some general kind of "power mode" where timers
> are simply not considered critical if you want to be in low-power mode).
HAL and dbus already deal with this sort of stuff, including now having a
notion of 'on battery' and the like so if its in sysfs it ceases to be
the kernels problem ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-29 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-29 15:05 [patch 0/5] Nano/Microsecond resolution for select() and poll() Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-29 15:06 ` [PATCH 1/5] select: add a timespec version of the timeout to select/poll Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-30 2:10 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-30 2:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-29 15:07 ` [PATCH 2/5] select: return accurate remainer in select() and ppoll() Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-29 15:07 ` [PATCH 3/5] select: introduce a schedule_hrtimeout() function Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-29 15:08 ` [PATCH 4/5] select: make select() use schedule_hrtimeout() Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-29 15:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-29 15:59 ` Daniel Walker
2008-08-29 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-29 16:11 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-29 17:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-29 17:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-29 18:18 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-29 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-29 18:33 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-08-30 15:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-29 16:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-29 15:08 ` [PATCH 5/5] select: make poll() use schedule_hrtimeout() as well Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-29 15:54 ` [patch 0/5] Nano/Microsecond resolution for select() and poll() Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-29 16:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-29 22:15 ` Brian Wellington
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