From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, akinobu.mita@gmail.com,
sboyd@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] timer: Added usleep[_range] timer
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:22:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C44D01B.6090508@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C44CDD2.1070708@codeaurora.org>
On 7/19/2010 3:12 PM, Patrick Pannuto wrote:
>
>> I like the general idea, but I kinda doubt the "interruptible" version
>> makes sense for this...
>> do you have any users for that in mind? if not... can we leave the
>> interruptible version out... makes it simpler by a lot.
>>
>>
> Respun without interruptible...
>
>
> From 08b717cf4f76d7578cb20c1b1444d89a9331ce02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Patrick Pannuto<ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:09:26 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] timer: Added usleep[_range] timer
>
> usleep[_range] are finer precision implementations of msleep
> and are designed to be drop-in replacements for udelay where
> a precise sleep / busy-wait is unnecessary. They also allow
> an easy interface to specify slack when a precise (ish)
> wakeup is unnecessary to help minimize wakeups
>
>
excellent
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-19 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-19 20:54 [PATCH] timer: Added usleep[_range][_interruptible] timer Patrick Pannuto
2010-07-19 22:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-07-19 22:12 ` [PATCH] timer: Added usleep[_range] timer Patrick Pannuto
2010-07-19 22:22 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2010-07-22 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-23 13:10 ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Patrick Pannuto
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