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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: "Davide Libenzi" <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
	"Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@redhat.com>,
	geoff@gclare.org.uk, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	vda.linux@googlemail.com,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Lee Schermerhorn" <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	"David Härdeman" <david@hardeman.nu>
Subject: Re: RFC: A revised timerfd API
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:10:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190481002.4035.51.camel@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F514C9.5010208@gmx.net>

Michael,

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 15:12 +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Davide, Andrew, Linus, et al.
> 
> At the start of this thread
> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/581115 ), I proposed 4
> alternatives to Davide's original timerfd API.  Based on the feedback in
> that thread (and one or two earlier comments):
> 
> Let's dismiss option (a), since it is an unlovely multiplexing interface.
> 
> Option (b) seems a viable.  The most notable concern was from Thomas
> Gleixner, that we might end up duplicating code from the POSIX timers API
> within the timerfd API -- some eventual refactoring might mitigate this
> problem.

It should be possible to use the timerfd syscalls as wrappers for the
posix timer implementation and add the discussed SIGEV_TIMERFD only
internally in the kernel to signal the posix timer code new delivery
mechanism.

	tglx


	


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-22 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-18  7:27 RFC: A revised timerfd API Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18  7:30 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18  8:05   ` David Härdeman
2007-09-18  9:01     ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18  9:27       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18  9:10   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18  9:30     ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18  9:42       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18 11:08         ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 11:30           ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18 13:13             ` David Härdeman
2007-09-22 13:03               ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 16:51 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-22 13:12   ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-22 14:32     ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-09-22 16:07       ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-22 17:05         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 23:37         ` David Härdeman
2007-09-22 17:10     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-09-22 21:07     ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-22 21:26       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 23:21         ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 17:33       ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-23 18:33         ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 18:41           ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 19:03             ` Michael Kerrisk

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