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 -- 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/
