Re: [PATCH] Add support for deferrable timers (respun-Mar28)

Andrew Morton
2007-03-29T00:11:37Z

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:00:21 -0700
Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:

> Please drop the patch you included yesterday and two incremental patches and
> use the patch below.

As you saw, I went and turned it into an incremental patch again. It makes
it easier to see what changed, but harder to see the whole thing.

> Introduce a new flag for timers - deferrable:

OK, but there's nothing in-kernel whcih actually uses this.

It would be good to identify some timer users which can be switched over (as
many as possible, really) so this thing actually gets some runtime testing.