Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:02:13 -0800 | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Subject | Re: [RFC patch 0/5] hrtimers: Add deferrable mode |
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On 02/21/2014 09:56 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Deferrable timers are beneficial for power saving. They behave like > standard timers except that their expiry can be delayed up to the > expiry of the next non deferred timer. That prevents them from waking > up cpus from deep idle periods.
What does this accomplish that can't be done with hrtimers with enormous slack?
--Andy
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