Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:33:09 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       mingo@elte.hu, tglx@tglx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] select: make select() use schedule_hrtimeout()
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> And yes, I do agree that the heuristic could well involve other 
> characteristics of the process in question. And probably characteristics 
> of the machine itself (ie some general kind of "power mode" where timers 
> are simply not considered critical if you want to be in low-power mode).

HAL and dbus already deal with this sort of stuff, including now having a
notion of 'on battery' and the like so if its in sysfs it ceases to be
the kernels problem ;)
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