Applications Power Management

Group Timers

Not all polling can be avoided. However, if there are 10 different applications that have their own timers, that will still make that CPU wake up 10 times and result in many staggered-over-time interrupts. Grouping timers system-wide will help reduce idle wake ups.

Glib applications can use g_timeout_add_seconds() to place timers in groups, as above.