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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Deferrable Timer

To: "Yu, Ke" <ke.yu@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Deferrable Timer
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:15:24 +0100
Cc: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>, "Wei, Gang" <gang.wei@xxxxxxxxx>
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On 17/7/08 13:54, "Yu, Ke" <ke.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch adds new ac timer API set_timer_deferrable for the deferrable
> timer.

Whether this is worthwhile depends on what likely users there are.
platform-timer overflow is not very compelling since if you're using
anything other than PIT (which ought to be likely on a modern system
supporting deep sleep) the overflow period should be multiple seconds.

 -- Keir



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