From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263607AbUEKUan (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 16:30:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263623AbUEKUam (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 16:30:42 -0400 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:7906 "EHLO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263607AbUEKUaf (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 16:30:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 22:32:36 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig , geoff@linux.jf.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kenneth.w.chen@intel.com Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Performance of del_timer_sync Message-ID: <20040511203236.GA6726@elte.hu> References: <409FFF3B.3090506@linux.intel.com> <20040511004551.7c7af44d.akpm@osdl.org> <00c001c43786$f1805000$ff0da8c0@amr.corp.intel.com> <20040511121126.73f5fdeb.akpm@osdl.org> <20040511195856.GA4958@elte.hu> <20040511131137.2390ffa8.akpm@osdl.org> <20040511211950.A20071@infradead.org> <20040511132619.7a4fb4cb.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040511132619.7a4fb4cb.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.26.8-itk2 (ELTE 1.1) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.65 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Andrew Morton wrote: > Nah, that's ungrammatical. del_timer_singleshot means "delete a timer > in a single-shot manner". > > We have: > > "add a timer" > "modify a timer" > "delete a timer" > "delete a timer synchronously" > "delete a single-shot timer" hm, indeed. Miraculously, the existing timer API names are correct grammatically, so we might as well go for del_single_shot_timer() ... Ingo