> This becomes especially important if we want the tickless code to > really shine as far as power management is concerned. Unfortunately, > the POSIX timer abstraction doesn't give this kind of flexibility > easily, so it's going to be a while before we see significant > userspace adoption of such a kernel feature, but I think it's > something that would be still worthwhile to add.
I suspect it would be overkill to specify that on every sleep operation. 99% of applications won't care and for the 1% leftover a global per process setting should be fine. I think a single prctl() and a global sysctl as default would be enough. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
