On Fri, 14 May 2010, Brian Swetland wrote: > In tickless mode, the time until next timer is a signed int, so the > longest the kernel will ever sleep is ~2 seconds at a go. In > practice, userspace entities often have polling behavior that can > trigger more often than that, and I've observed some kernel periodic > timers (haven't cataloged them recently) that happen more often than > once a second.
Paul and Kevin, how does the OMAP implementation handle these difficulties? Also, how does it handle the issue of ill-behaved apps? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
