From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753880AbYIBQDW (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 12:03:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751383AbYIBQDO (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 12:03:14 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:37733 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751061AbYIBQDO (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 12:03:14 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:03:12 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, drepper@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@tglx.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/13] hrtimer: make select() and poll() use the hrtimer range feature Message-ID: <20080902090312.7fb3c7b6@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1220343740.8609.21.camel@twins> References: <20080901160343.75a89ec9@infradead.org> <20080901161459.0990a16b@infradead.org> <1220343740.8609.21.camel@twins> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:22:20 +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Why not use a simple logarithmic decay to drive this estimate? or just take a 0.1% of the time ;) Linus wrote the original, who am I to argue? (and arguably, it doesn't really matter much, the current code is nice and simple enough) -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org