Re: [RFC][PATCH] cpuidle: avoid singing capacitors

From: lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lennart Sorensen)
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:44:07 -0500

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:38:12PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:

+/*
+ * The minimum number of ticks needed to not oscillate faster than
+ * 500 Hz.
+ */
+#define MIN_DEEP_INTERVAL (HZ / 500)

What happens here if HZ < 500? Or does the fact that you have less than
500HZ jiffies automatically imply that you can't go to sleep more than
the jiffy rate times per second?

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