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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	PARISC list <parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:54:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088290477.3790.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406261536590.16079@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Sad, 2004-06-26 at 23:48, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> "jiffies" is one of the few things that I accept as volatile, since it's 
> basically read-only and accessed directly and has no internal structure 
> (ie it's a single word).

For most uses jiffies should die. If drivers could not access jiffies
except by a (possibly trivial) helper then it would be a huge step
closer to being able to run embedded linux without a continually running
timer.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-26 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-26 16:08 [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite James Bottomley
2004-06-26 16:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 16:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 16:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 16:46   ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 16:54     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 17:18       ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 18:01         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 18:28           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-06-26 18:54             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 19:02               ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 19:13                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 19:13               ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-06-26 18:59           ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 19:11             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 19:33               ` James Bottomley
2004-06-28 23:16           ` Jonathan Lundell
2004-07-01 13:11       ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-01 14:07         ` [parisc-linux] " Alan Cox
2004-07-01 16:15           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-01 16:52             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-01 17:42               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 22:18   ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-26 22:48     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 22:54       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-06-27  0:05         ` [parisc-linux] " Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-27 12:00           ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-27 22:41             ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28  1:24               ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-28  5:42                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28  6:55                   ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-28  7:02                     ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28  7:19                       ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-27 14:37           ` Alan Cox
2004-07-01 13:33             ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-01 17:43               ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-26 23:37       ` jiffies_64 Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-27  1:55       ` more (insane) jiffies ranting Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-27 17:39         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-27 17:39         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-27 17:39         ` [parisc-linux] " Linus Torvalds

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