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From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: robustmutexes@lists.osdl.org, george@mvista.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] A more general timeout specification
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:24:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050519132457.GA9357@tsunami.ccur.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1hdh0yu14.fsf@muc.de>

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 01:49:11AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> writes:
> 
> > The fusyn (robust mutexes) project proposes the creation
> > of a more general data structure, 'struct timeout', for the
> > specification of timeouts in new services.  In this structure,
> > the user specifies:
> >
> >     a time, in timespec format.
> >     the clock the time is specified against (eg, CLOCK_MONOTONIC).
> >     whether the time is absolute, or relative to 'now'.
> 
> If you do a new structure for this I would suggest adding a
> "precision" field (or the same with a different name). Basically
> precision would tell the kernel that the wakeup can be in a time
> range, not necessarily on the exact time specified.

Very cool.
Joe

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-19 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-18 20:15 [RFC] A more general timeout specification Joe Korty
2005-05-18 22:15 ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2005-05-19 13:39   ` Joe Korty
2005-05-18 23:49 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-19 13:24   ` Joe Korty [this message]
2005-05-19 17:02   ` George Anzinger
2005-05-19 18:35     ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2005-05-20 19:05     ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-21  1:12       ` George Anzinger
2005-07-29  1:52 ` FW: " Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2005-08-22 22:56   ` john stultz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-01  0:00 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2005-09-01  9:19 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-01 13:48   ` Joe Korty
2005-09-01 15:18     ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-01 21:20       ` Kyle Moffett

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