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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() ?


  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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