Re: [Task Scheduler] scheduling flexibility

I actually find that to be a very useful feature, and I think it would be
very valuable if added.

Kenneth


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Michael van Ouwerkerk <
mvanouwerkerk@chromium.org> wrote:

> How do people feel about allowing for scheduling flexibility in the Task
> Scheduler API? The goal of this feature would be to save battery power. If
> the system has flexibility about when to precisely run a task, it could
> batch multiple tasks together, or only run tasks when the device is awake.
> This way, we could avoid waking up devices too frequently.
>
> Some use cases require precise scheduling e.g. an alarm in the morning, or
> a cooking timer. But there are many tasks that are much less time
> sensitive, these could be scheduled flexibly e.g. syncing a news feed or
> auto-updating to a new version.
>
> Any comments? My apologies if this issue has been discussed previously.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael van Ouwerkerk
>
>


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