Re: [patch] smptimers, old BH removal, tq-cleanup, 2.5.39

Jeff Garzik
2002-09-29T18:45:24Z

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() ?