Re: [v2 PATCH 0/4] timers: framework for migration between CPU

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Mar 05 2009 - 19:14:32 EST


On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:42:49 +0530
Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With the timers queued I measure the sleep state residency
> for a period of 10s.
> Next, I enable timer migration and measure the sleep state
> residency period.

is your table in seconds? Because realistically, at least on PC like
hardware, doing work to get sleep times over a 100 / 200 msecs or so
isn't going to save you any amount of measurable power anymore...



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