RE: [RFD] Automatic suspend

[Woodruff, Richard]

> > so use range timers / timer slack for those apps that you do not trust.
> > That is not a big deal, and solves the issue of timer wakeups...
>
> So have userspace say something like "The screen is turned off now,
> change the timer precision on all untrusted userland to sub 10 seconds"?
> That would work.

I also made a similar comment in thread to Arjan yesterday.

He did respond saying there was a pctrl to hit this.  If it's a big list it might be messy.  Unless it can be global.  Probably would be good to look at code rather than speculate.

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