Re: [Xenomai-core] Monotonic, realtime, and other timers

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>]

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Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>  > Ok, I think it's time to summarise some results of this thread:
>  > 
>  >  - xntimers will be of three kinds: real-time absolute, monotonic
>  >    absolute, and monotonic relative ones (ie. all POSIX). I'm currently
>  >    in favour of passing this property on timer start and not pushing
>  >    parts or more of it into timer init.
> 
> The posix skin can live without monotonic absolute timers: monotonic
> timeout could simply be converted to relative timeouts.
> 

The POSIX skin will not be the only user, and I rather see disadvantages
/wrt the hot-path (multiple timer readouts + conversions) when moving
over emulation mode again.

Anyway, I hope I can come up with some patches over the next days,
clarifying what we actually need to change (not much I think).

Jan


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