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    timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timers · 3bbb9ec9
    Arjan van de Ven authored
    
    
    While HR timers have had the concept of timer slack for quite some time
    now, the legacy timers lacked this concept, and had to make do with
    round_jiffies() and friends.
    
    Timer slack is important for power management; grouping timers reduces the
    number of wakeups which in turn reduces power consumption.
    
    This patch introduces timer slack to the legacy timers using the following
    pieces:
    * A slack field in the timer struct
    * An api (set_timer_slack) that callers can use to set explicit timer slack
    * A default slack of 0.4% of the requested delay for callers that do not set
      any explicit slack
    * Rounding code that is part of mod_timer() that tries to
      group timers around jiffies values every 'power of two'
      (so quick timers will group around every 2, but longer timers
      will group around every 4, 8, 16, 32 etc)
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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