On May 13, 2012 at 4:13 PM Yongcong Du <ycdu.vmcore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have one patch to do what axel said: disable the timer for idle thread. > And by my test, it can reduce the wake up times during idle from ~550 to > ~320, about ~41% unnecessary wakeups. I believe this will improve the power > efficiency when we enabled cpu idle. > > Looking for your comments! Looks fine, thanks! There is just one coding style violation: when the 'if' block is a multi-line statement (as in case of the add_timer() call), it needs to be in its own block. Since Fredrik already committed it, I guess its his duty to fix it, though :-) Bye, Axel.