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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: david@hardeman.nu, davidel@xmailserver.org, drepper@redhat.com,
	geoff@gclare.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, hch@lst.de, corbet@lwn.net,
	rdunlap@xenotime.net, vda.linux@googlemail.com,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com
Subject: Re: RFC: A revised timerfd API
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:30:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190115011.2995.126.camel@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070918110841.235150@gmx.net>

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 13:08 +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > > it does make the API a little more clumsy.
> > 
> > Hmm, we might do something like:
> > 
> > 	timer_gettime(fd | POSIX_TIMER_FD, .....);
> > 
> > So the kernel looks up the fd in order to figure out the timer_id, which
> > needs to be referenced in filep->private_data anyway.
> 
> And you'd need similar for timer_settime() and, perhaps,
> timer_getoverrun().  But it seems slightly ugly, in the same way that
> my idea in option (d) of returning a file descriptor from
> timer_create() seems a slightly ugly.  (And can we guarantee that
> the [timerid] space is distinct from the [fd|POSIX_TIMER_FD] space?)

If we use the most significant bit for POSIX_TIMER_FD, we should be
fine.

	tglx



  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-18 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-18  7:27 RFC: A revised timerfd API Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18  7:30 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18  8:05   ` David Härdeman
2007-09-18  9:01     ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18  9:27       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18  9:10   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18  9:30     ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18  9:42       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18 11:08         ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 11:30           ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-09-18 13:13             ` David Härdeman
2007-09-22 13:03               ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 16:51 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-22 13:12   ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-22 14:32     ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-09-22 16:07       ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-22 17:05         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 23:37         ` David Härdeman
2007-09-22 17:10     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 21:07     ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-22 21:26       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 23:21         ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 17:33       ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-23 18:33         ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 18:41           ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 19:03             ` Michael Kerrisk

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