Re: [RFC patch 0/5] hrtimers: Add deferrable mode

2014-02-25 Thread Andy Lutomirski
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

Re: [RFC patch 0/5] hrtimers: Add deferrable mode

2014-02-25 Thread Andy Lutomirski
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

[RFC patch 0/5] hrtimers: Add deferrable mode

2014-02-21 Thread Thomas Gleixner
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. Right now deferrable timers are only available in the timer

[RFC patch 0/5] hrtimers: Add deferrable mode

2014-02-21 Thread Thomas Gleixner
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. Right now deferrable timers are only available in the timer