Re: [PATCH 09/12] irq: implement IRQ expecting

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On 06/19/2010 10:35 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> I would like to suggest an (optional) argument to this with a duration
>> within which to expect an interrupt....
>>
>> that way in the backend we can plumb this also into the idle handler
>> for C state selection...
> 
> I'm not sure it's really that useful to power optimize
> the lost interrupts polling case. It's just a last resort
> fallback anyways and will be always less power efficient
> because there will be unnecessary polls.

IIUC, it's not to help or optimize polling itself.  It just gives us a
way to estimate when the next interrupt would be so that power can be
optimized for non polling cases.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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