From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] msleep() with hrtimers
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:18:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070716151812.GA25944@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21003.1184596954@lwn.net>
* Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> In the end, I did this because I thought msleep() should do what it
> claims to do, because I thought that getting a known-to-expire timeout
> off the timer wheel made sense, and to make a tiny baby step in the
> direction of reducing the use of jiffies in the core code.
yeah, fully agreed.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-16 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-15 22:42 [PATCH/RFC] msleep() with hrtimers Jonathan Corbet
2007-07-15 23:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-07-16 10:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-16 11:39 ` Roman Zippel
2007-07-16 11:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-16 11:54 ` Roman Zippel
2007-07-16 11:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-16 12:05 ` Roman Zippel
2007-07-16 12:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-16 13:00 ` Roman Zippel
2007-07-16 14:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-16 14:32 ` Roman Zippel
2007-07-16 14:42 ` Jonathan Corbet
2007-07-16 15:18 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-07-16 15:43 ` Roman Zippel
2007-07-16 15:57 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-16 16:08 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-07-17 4:04 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-18 17:53 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-07-16 16:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-16 16:55 ` Roman Zippel
2007-07-16 17:46 ` Jonathan Corbet
2007-07-20 12:49 ` Roman Zippel
2007-07-16 14:11 ` Roman Zippel
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