Re: [PATCH -tip-rcu] Make rcutorture more vicious: make quiescentrcutorture less power-hungry

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jun 24 2008 - 07:38:11 EST



* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > could you also make it use round_jiffies_relative() to make the
> > power impact even less..... (by coalescing various "once a second"
> > timers like this)
>
> Good point!!! As follows, on top of the previous one.
>
> This patch aligns the rcutorture wakeup times to align with all other
> multiple-of-a-second wakeups to further decrease power consumption.
>
> Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

applied to tip/core/rcu - thanks Paul.

Ingo
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