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author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2007-09-04 12:49:22 -0400 |
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committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2007-09-04 12:49:22 -0400 |
commit | 21bc42ab852549f4a547d18d77e0e4d1b24ffd96 (patch) | |
tree | b4597592729a91cf1e8f26b8b73d837de33d67c9 /README | |
parent | 40ffbfad6bb79a99cc7627bdaca0ee22dec526f6 (diff) |
ACPI: thermal: use round_jiffies when thermal zone polling is enabled
Properly functioning systems do not use thermal zone polling,
they use event-based notification.
However, some users enable periodic thermal zone polling
to work around bugs on their platforms, and at least one
platform exists with a real _TZP that requests polling.
While thermal zone polling (_TZP) is specified in units to 0.1 seconds,
it actually has a maximum granularity of 1 second. Thus, we can safely
round up the _TZP timeout to occur on the next 1-second boundary.
This will batch it with other 1-second-granularity timers in the
system and thus potentially extend processor idle duration.
Note that the same timer is used both for _TZP
and for passive processor thermal throttling.
We can not round up the timeout when it is used
for passive thermal throttling.
Also, we can not make this a deferrable timer,
as temperature is just as relevant during idle
as it is during non-idle.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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