Re: VST timer support, comments needed

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:27:57AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We've implemented a VST (Variable Scheduling Timeouts) support on omap, and
> I thought this might be of interest to people here too. It should be possible
> to implement similar VST support on other machines as well.
> 
> VST means the system can stay in idle until next timer event happens. This
> allows considerable power savings.
> 
> VST can be easily implemented in the standard 2.6 kernel using the
> next_timer_interrupt() function that was introduced about six months ago by
> the os390 folks.

Nice.  This is one of those things I've wanted.  Have you checked for
skew against the wall-clock?

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