Re: [PATCH] RFC: nomadik: expand timesource to 63 bits

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Nov 11 2010 - 14:00:45 EST


On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Well, you don't need the keepwarm() timer, if you just call
> > sched_clock() in the idle wakeup path, so the magic in the NOHZ code
> > will ensure that you reread the thing timely.
>
> You still have to make sure you get out of idle before 16 secs has
> passed.

No, I meant to put it into the idle loop, right after mach_idle() or
whatever is called to put the CPU into deep power sleep. The
clockevents core code makes sure that you get interrupted in time.

Thanks,

tglx
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