Hi all, On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 10:43:35PM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > This patch set implements a userland-side API for generic deferrable > timers, per linux/timer.h: > > * A deferrable timer will work normally when the system is busy, but > * will not cause a CPU to come out of idle just to service it; instead, > * the timer will be serviced when the CPU eventually wakes up with a > * subsequent non-deferrable timer. > > These timers are crucial for power saving, i.e. periodic tasks that want > to work in background when the system is under use, but don't want to > cause wakeups themselves.
Just a friendly ping. Does anyone had a chance to look into this, whether the idea bad or good, or whether the implementation is OK? Thanks! Anton. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
