Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:37:49 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] timers: Timer migration |
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:12:39 +0530 > > > Here's a brief introduction as to why we need timer migration. >
as I've said before, for reducing power consumption I don't buy into needing this concept....
If you have high frequency timers, you've lost no matter what (and we fixed almost all of them in the ecosystem); if you don't have those then this patch doesn't really add anything. (and the range-hrtimers fixes the intermediate state)
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