Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933770Ab0FEXbr (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jun 2010 19:31:47 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:49560 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933664Ab0FEXbp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jun 2010 19:31:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 16:34:11 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Arve =?UTF-8?B?SGrDuG5uZXbDpWc=?= Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , tytso@mit.edu, Brian Swetland , Neil Brown , Thomas Gleixner , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alan Stern , Felipe Balbi , LKML , Florian Mickler , Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linux PM , Alan Cox , James Bottomley , Linus Torvalds , Kevin Hilman , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: suspend blockers & Android integration Message-ID: <20100605163411.6c561fbf@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20100603193045.GA7188@elte.hu> <20100603231153.GA11302@elte.hu> <20100603232302.GA16184@elte.hu> <20100604071354.GA14451@elte.hu> <20100604083423.GD15181@elte.hu> <1275653210.27810.39762.camel@twins> <1275731653.27810.41078.camel@twins> <20100605092851.6ee15f13@infradead.org> <20100605152326.7ccd5160@infradead.org> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1263 Lines: 36 On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 15:39:44 -0700 Arve Hjønnevåg wrote: > > > > For example if the Adobe Flash player puts a timer every 10 > > milliseconds (yes it does that), and you give it a 3.99 seconds > > range, it will fire its timers every 4 seconds.... unless other > > activity happens independently, at which point it'll align with > > that instead. > > > > If you do that what you are delivering is nowhere close to what the > app asked for. yeah it feels a little bit suspended > You don't need range timers for this, you could just as > well add 4 seconds to all normal timers. .. with the difference that with range timers, you naturally align with other activity, so if there's system level activity, the AVERAGE service the app gets is better by a LOT than just adding 4 seconds always. but you knew that.... just doesn't help your case. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/