From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
domen@coderock.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
clucas@rotomalug.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:09:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1122116986.3582.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0507231247460.3743@scrub.home>
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 12:50 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > Also I'd rather not add the non-msec ones... either you're raw and use
> > HZ, or you are "cooked" and use the msec variant.. I dont' see the point
> > of adding an "in the middle" one. (Yes this means that several users
> > need to be transformed to msecs but... I consider that progress ;)
>
> What's wrong with using jiffies?
A lot of the (driver) users want a wallclock based timeout. For that,
miliseconds is a more obvious API with less chance to get the jiffies/HZ
conversion wrong by the driver writer.
> It's simple and the current timeout
> system is based on it. Calling it something else doesn't suddenly give you
> more precision.
It's not about precision, it's about making the new API (which is
intended to be a simplification already due to sucking in the state
setting) match the intent closer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-23 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-07 21:31 [patch 1/4] drivers/char/ip2/i2lib.c: replace direct assignment with set_current_state() domen
2005-07-08 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-08 23:22 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-07-23 0:27 ` [PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 0:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-23 1:08 ` [UPDATE PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}_msecs() interfaces Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 2:30 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-23 16:23 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 10:50 ` [PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 11:09 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-07-23 11:55 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 12:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-23 13:04 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 13:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-23 13:29 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 13:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-23 15:56 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 16:44 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 16:43 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 17:17 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 19:10 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 20:12 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-27 22:29 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-30 23:35 ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-01 19:35 ` [UPDATE PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{intr,unintr}{,_msecs}() interfaces Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-03 14:20 ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-04 0:51 ` [PATCH] push rounding up of relative request to schedule_timeout() Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-04 5:14 ` [UPDATE PATCH] " Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-04 16:45 ` George Anzinger
2005-08-04 18:48 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-08-16 23:05 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-17 0:39 ` George Anzinger
2005-08-17 5:56 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-17 19:51 ` George Anzinger
2005-08-17 22:24 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-04 17:05 ` George Anzinger
2005-08-04 18:49 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-08-04 9:38 ` [PATCH] " Roman Zippel
2005-08-04 14:33 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-04 18:59 ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-04 19:11 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-04 23:20 ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-04 17:08 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-04 19:00 ` [PATCH] add schedule_timeout_{,un}intr() interfaces Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-08-05 7:38 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-23 16:37 ` [PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 17:01 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 19:06 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-07-23 20:22 ` Roman Zippel
2005-07-23 16:30 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1122116986.3582.7.camel@localhost.localdomain \
--to=arjan@infradead.org \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=clucas@rotomalug.org \
--cc=domen@coderock.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=nacc@us.ibm.com \
--cc=zippel@linux-m68k.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.