On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:15:50PM -0700, David Lang wrote:

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> with dynaticks now in the kernel it may even be possible to have the idle 
> process decide that the next event is far enough away that it should 
> suspend-to-ram until that point.

This would be ideal (and it's broadly what the OLPC guys are aiming for, 
I think), but on most platforms you're looking at at least a second or 
so to resume. As far as I know, we're still looking at ~60 ticks a 
second at best for an average desktop, so that's not going to be a win.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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