Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:44:07 -0500
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
       Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] cpuidle: avoid singing capacitors
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On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:38:12PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> +/*
> + * The minimum number of ticks needed to not oscillate faster than
> + * 500 Hz.
> + */
> +#define MIN_DEEP_INTERVAL (HZ / 500)

What happens here if HZ < 500?  Or does the fact that you have less than
500HZ jiffies automatically imply that you can't go to sleep more than
the jiffy rate times per second?

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Len Sorensen
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