From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
johnstul@us.ibm.com, davidel@xmailserver.org, virtuoso@slind.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, chris.friesen@genband.com,
kirill@shutemov.name, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:timers/core] timerfd: Allow timers to be cancelled when clock was set
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 17:11:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305126680.2914.238.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=aOsRs4iS_j41=NNESC2rgmwtpbg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 16:53 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>
> > Dunno, an eventfd that triggers every time someone calls adjtime() and
> > related?
>
> I think, we are exactly not interested in adjtime() calls, but only in
> jumps in wall clock time.
adjtime(), adjtimex() and settimeofday() are afaik the only ways to make
walltime jump. Anyway what are you arguing about, don't you want the
notification or do you insist on making the kernel slower for the 3
people who care about this daftness?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-11 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <tip-99ee5315dac6211e972fa3f23bcc9a0343ff58c4@git.kernel.org>
2011-05-11 10:23 ` [tip:timers/core] timerfd: Allow timers to be cancelled when clock was set Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-11 11:58 ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-11 13:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-11 13:52 ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-11 14:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-11 14:22 ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-11 14:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-11 14:32 ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-11 14:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-11 14:53 ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-11 15:11 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-05-11 15:17 ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-11 15:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-11 15:44 ` Kay Sievers
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