Semperon processors

[Harald Hoyer]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:05:47PM +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> 
>>I never understood the kernel timer concept, why not build a wakeup list 
>>and sleep exactly the time to the next event??
> 
> 
> someone needs to kick you into waking..... and that is the timer irq
> 

yes, but you may set the timer to the next wakeup event, you really want to 
wakeup.