From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
akpm@zip.com.au
Subject: Re: [patch] smptimers, old BH removal, tq-cleanup, 2.5.39
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:50:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D974B62.2040805@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D9748BA.5010704@pobox.com
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 3) Maybe this is an improvement worth considering, maybe not: I think
> it would be useful to have "process context timers." What I mean by
> this is, make it easier to implement code that can be boiled down to:
> run in process context
> sleep for a little while
> Sure I can do this by implementing a timer that does nothing more than
> call schedule_task(), but that seems a little redundant if done in
> multiple places :)
To sum, I guess I want something to "run schedule_task() [at least] NN
usecs from now." schedule_task_future() ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-29 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-29 17:52 [patch] smptimers, old BH removal, tq-cleanup, 2.5.39 Ingo Molnar
2002-09-29 18:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-29 18:50 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-09-29 19:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-29 19:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-29 18:54 ` Dave Jones
2002-09-29 19:15 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-30 0:20 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-30 4:33 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-30 4:28 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-30 4:38 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-09-30 12:55 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-30 14:50 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-09-29 19:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-30 0:39 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-30 6:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-30 21:45 ` george anzinger
2002-10-01 3:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-01 4:18 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-01 5:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-01 8:00 ` george anzinger
2002-10-01 5:33 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-03 7:10 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-30 23:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-30 16:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-30 23:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-30 17:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-01 0:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
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