Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ksm: Provide support to use deferrable timers for scanner thread

2014-07-30 Thread Chintan Pandya
On 07/31/2014 03:17 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 20:18:18 +0530 Chintan Pandya wrote: KSM thread to scan pages is scheduled on definite timeout. That wakes up CPU from idle state and hence may affect the power consumption. Provide an optional support to use deferrable timer wh

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ksm: Provide support to use deferrable timers for scanner thread

2014-07-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 20:18:18 +0530 Chintan Pandya wrote: > KSM thread to scan pages is scheduled on definite timeout. That wakes > up CPU from idle state and hence may affect the power consumption. > Provide an optional support to use deferrable timer which suites > low-power use-cases. > > Typ

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ksm: Provide support to use deferrable timers for scanner thread

2014-07-29 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 20:18:18 +0530 Chintan Pandya wrote: > KSM thread to scan pages is scheduled on definite timeout. That wakes > up CPU from idle state and hence may affect the power consumption. > Provide an optional support to use deferrable timer which suites > low-power use-cases. > > Typ

[PATCH v2 2/2] ksm: Provide support to use deferrable timers for scanner thread

2014-07-25 Thread Chintan Pandya
KSM thread to scan pages is scheduled on definite timeout. That wakes up CPU from idle state and hence may affect the power consumption. Provide an optional support to use deferrable timer which suites low-power use-cases. Typically, on our setup we observed, 10% less power consumption with some u