From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 10404@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10404: [PATCH] Power: sleep longer than two seconds at a time
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:25:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s74nd3utp6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RgPZx-0008S8-CU@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:40:09 -0800")
This sounds like a good idea.
Does anyone have any comments?
Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Emacs uses an atimer to poll for input every so often so it can detect
> C-g presses while lisp code is running; atimer arranges for this polling
> to be done by having a SIGALRM delivered every so often --- by default,
> every two seconds. But while lisp code is not running and emacs is
> blocked in select() [or a platform-specific analogue], we want to
> stop this polling to save power: we don't need it because the select
> will return as soon as there's input.
>
> Emacs has code that's meant to turn off atimers while we wait for
> input --- wait_reading_process_output calls stop_polling and
> turn_on_atimers (0). But time ago, we started calling redisplay
> code inside the select loop, and this select code turns atimers
> back on. The effect is that we don't sleep longer than two second
> at a time.
>
> This patch turns off SIGALRM delivery around select, making sure that
> we stay asleep. With this patch (and blink-cursor-mode off), Emacs
> will process input, then sleep for 30 seconds, and if no input
> arrives in that time, will sleep for several hours. The patch
> does not adversely any functionality.
> ---
> src/process.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/process.c b/src/process.c
> index 5c8eef7..f81a5c4 100644
> --- a/src/process.c
> +++ b/src/process.c
> @@ -4304,6 +4304,10 @@ wait_reading_process_output (int time_limit, int microsecs, int read_kbd,
> int got_some_input = 0;
> int count = SPECPDL_INDEX ();
>
> +#ifdef SIGALRM
> + SIGMASKTYPE mask;
> +#endif /* SIGALRM */
> +
> FD_ZERO (&Available);
> FD_ZERO (&Writeok);
>
> @@ -4606,6 +4610,14 @@ wait_reading_process_output (int time_limit, int microsecs, int read_kbd,
> }
> #endif
>
> +#ifdef SIGALRM
> + /* We don't want SIGALRM going off while we're blocked in
> + select. If there any any pending timers, timeout has
> + been set appropriately already and we'll wake up
> + automatically. */
> + mask = sigblock (sigmask (SIGALRM));
> +#endif /* SIGALRM */
> +
> #if defined (USE_GTK) || defined (HAVE_GCONF) || defined (HAVE_GSETTINGS)
> nfds = xg_select
> #elif defined (HAVE_NS)
> @@ -4618,6 +4630,10 @@ wait_reading_process_output (int time_limit, int microsecs, int read_kbd,
> (check_write ? &Writeok : (SELECT_TYPE *)0),
> (SELECT_TYPE *)0, &timeout);
>
> +#ifdef SIGALRM
> + sigsetmask (mask);
> +#endif /* SIGALRM */
> +
> #ifdef HAVE_GNUTLS
> /* GnuTLS buffers data internally. In lowat mode it leaves
> some data in the TCP buffers so that select works, but
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-12 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-29 23:40 bug#10404: [PATCH] Power: sleep longer than two seconds at a time Daniel Colascione
2013-06-12 17:25 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-06-12 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-20 19:46 ` Glenn Morris
2016-02-25 6:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-13 1:18 ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-13 23:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-27 15:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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