From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, ray-gmail@madrabbit.org,
zippel@linux-m68k.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, george@mvista.com,
johnstul@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 00/43] ktimer reworked
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 22:15:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051201221553.GA19135@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7D53372C-E138-4336-883F-A674BBBB09AA@mac.com>
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:13:17PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> In this patch there are two ways of setting up code to run at some
> point in the future: timers and timeouts.
>
> A timeout (like waiting for somebody to answer the phone) is
> optimized to never happen (they will hopefully pick up first). If
> everything works perfectly; it will be stopped before it has a chance
> to go off.
>
> A timer (like a kitchen timer telling you the cookies are done) is
> optimized to be added and sit around until it expires. You just
> don't turn off the timer and take the cookies out before they are done.
Heh, in my dumb non-native speaker mind I'd expectit the other way around,
as in a timeout is expected to time out :) and a timer is expect to happen,
as in say the timer the tells you your breakfast egg is ready.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-01 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-30 23:56 [patch 00/43] ktimer reworked Thomas Gleixner
2005-12-01 0:41 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-01 2:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-01 3:32 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-01 3:57 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-01 15:40 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-01 16:22 ` Ray Lee
2005-12-01 16:51 ` Russell King
2005-12-01 17:44 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-01 19:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-01 21:11 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-01 22:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-02 0:29 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-02 0:41 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-02 0:58 ` john stultz
2005-12-02 1:01 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-02 1:09 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-02 1:24 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-02 1:47 ` David Lang
2005-12-02 14:43 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-02 15:41 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-07 9:35 ` James Bruce
2005-12-07 12:34 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-07 14:15 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-07 15:03 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-07 14:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-08 15:43 ` James Bruce
2005-12-02 2:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-04 1:28 ` Andrew James Wade
2005-12-05 19:40 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-06 2:46 ` Andrew James Wade
2005-12-01 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-01 21:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-01 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-01 22:13 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-01 22:15 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-12-02 0:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-12-02 0:36 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-02 1:06 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-02 14:42 ` John Stoffel
2005-12-02 2:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-02 0:46 ` Roman Zippel
2005-12-01 16:52 ` Roman Zippel
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