Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 18:59:04 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Ken Key <key@cs.utk.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM suspend/resume and the "calltodo" timer list. Message-ID: <199712130829.SAA01822@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Dec 1997 11:29:21 CDT." <199712101629.LAA13982@duncan.cs.utk.edu>
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> Hi Folks, Hi Ken, sorry I haven't responded before, but I have been thinking about this one a while. > I'm soliciting the mobile community at large for suggestions of things I > may not have thought about that this might negatively effect in the OS. > The worst I have come up with is just that the system potentially could > become very busy at startup time running all the expired timers that have > collapsed together. I think this has been the concern thus far. To be honest, though, I think your point about long timeouts is really quite valid, and the impact of expiring short timeouts in a bunch at resume time is probably, as you suggest, quite low. > I haven't noticed this thus far on my tp560, but I > won't claim having performed an exhaustive analysis. If nothing bad comes > up in this testing, I'll post my patch. That'd be good. I think you're on the right track, FWIW. mike
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