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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2008-09-01 15:47:08 -0700
committerArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2008-09-05 21:35:27 -0700
commit654c8e0b1c623b156c5b92f28d914ab38c9c2c90 (patch)
treeb3b1f8cfa8f3b12170f0d8b8770857182a2f0309 /kernel/sys.c
parent799b64de256ea68fbb5db63bb55f61c305870643 (diff)
hrtimer: turn hrtimers into range timers
this patch turns hrtimers into range timers; they have 2 expire points 1) the soft expire point 2) the hard expire point the kernel will do it's regular best effort attempt to get the timer run at the hard expire point. However, if some other time fires after the soft expire point, the kernel now has the freedom to fire this timer at this point, and thus grouping the events and preventing a power-expensive wakeup in the future. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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