From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Arch list <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: clear_user_highpage()
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:03:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092269017.2136.32.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040811165547.4cbc98a4.davem@redhat.com>
> I think dynamic-resolution timers are the way to go here.
> Rusty was talking about something along theses lines at
> the networking summit.
Yup, several people talked about it at KS/OLS and I think s390 has
some implementation already, though I hadn't time to look at it yet,
hopefully that will happen sooner or later.
> The reason Rusty had brought it up was due to a ipv6 problem,
> there are some timers that need to get so far into the future
> that with HZ=1000 it isn't representable in the 32-bit timer
> offsets. We have jiffies64 and could move the timer struct
> over the a u64 for the offsets, but that seems like overkill.
--
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-12 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-11 23:15 clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-11 23:31 ` clear_user_highpage() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-11 23:55 ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12 0:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-08-12 1:18 ` clear_user_highpage() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-12 2:11 ` clear_user_highpage() Andi Kleen
2004-08-12 9:23 ` clear_user_highpage() Martin Schwidefsky
2004-08-11 23:46 ` clear_user_highpage() Linus Torvalds
2004-08-11 23:53 ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12 0:00 ` clear_user_highpage() Linus Torvalds
2004-08-12 0:06 ` clear_user_highpage() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-12 0:24 ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12 0:23 ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12 1:46 ` clear_user_highpage() Linus Torvalds
2004-08-12 2:51 ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-16 1:58 ` clear_user_highpage() Paul Mackerras
2004-08-12 2:08 ` clear_user_highpage() Andi Kleen
2004-08-12 2:45 ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12 9:09 ` clear_user_highpage() Andi Kleen
2004-08-12 19:50 ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12 20:00 ` clear_user_highpage() Andi Kleen
2004-08-12 20:30 ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12 21:34 ` clear_user_highpage() Matthew Wilcox
2004-08-13 8:16 ` clear_user_highpage() David Mosberger
2004-08-12 0:00 ` clear_user_highpage() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-12 0:21 ` clear_user_highpage() Linus Torvalds
2004-08-12 0:46 ` clear_user_highpage() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-12 1:01 ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12 2:18 ` clear_user_highpage() Linus Torvalds
2004-08-12 2:43 ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12 4:19 ` clear_user_highpage() Linus Torvalds
2004-08-12 4:46 ` clear_user_highpage() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-15 6:22 ` clear_user_highpage() Andrew Morton
2004-08-15 6:38 ` clear_user_highpage() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-12 2:57 ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-12 3:20 ` clear_user_highpage() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-13 21:41 ` clear_user_highpage() David S. Miller
2004-08-16 13:00 ` clear_user_highpage() David Mosberger
2004-08-22 19:51 ` clear_user_highpage() Linus Torvalds
2005-09-17 19:01 ` clear_user_highpage() Andi Kleen
2005-09-17 19:16 ` clear_user_highpage() Andi Kleen
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