Re: [patch] change futex_wait() to hrtimers

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Mar 12 2007 - 06:54:08 EST


On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:27 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > the only correct approach is the use of hrtimers, and a patch exists for
> > that - see below. This has been included in -rt for quite some time.
>
> But isn't that bad for power management? You'll likely get more
> idle wakeups, won't you?

Why so ? It comes more precise, but only once.

tglx


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