Re: [PATCH 09/12] irq: implement IRQ expecting

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:00:31 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > IIUC, it's not to help or optimize polling itself.  It just gives
> > us a way to estimate when the next interrupt would be so that power
> > can be optimized for non polling cases.
> 
> Shouldn't the idle governour estimate this already?

we have a set of heuristics in the idle governor to try to predict the
future. For patterns that are regular in some shape of form we can do
this.

Here we have the opportunity to get real good information.. we KNOW
now an interrupt is coming, and we can even estimate how long it'll
be...  Even for the first few after a long time, before a pattern
emerges.



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