From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
dwmw2@infradead.org, drepper@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu,
tglx@tglx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/13] hrtimer: create a "timer_slack" field in the task struct
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 06:40:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080908064002.7abc2a22@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080908132713.GA18486@elf.ucw.cz>
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:27:16 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> >
> > ... which nobody uses today.
> > It's not just new syscalls, it's a new glibc api as well at that
> > point.
>
> ...and new applications, yes. I believe applications should
> explicitely enable slacking timers.
timers are slacking today, at least for select() and poll(), and are a
great deal more so than the defaults in this patchkit.
The great advantage of the prctl() approach (which is usable) over new
system calls and glibc APIs is that it will get used, because the admin
can use it just like he uses the "nice" command, on existing software.
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-01 23:03 [PATCH 0/13] Turn hrtimers into a range capable timer Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:05 ` [PATCH 1/13] hrtimer: add abstraction functions for accessing the "expires" member Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:05 ` [PATCH 2/13] hrtimer: convert kvm to the new hrtimer apis Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:06 ` [PATCH 3/13] hrtimer: convert timerfd " Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:07 ` [PATCH 4/13] hrtimer: convert net::sched_cbq " Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:08 ` [PATCH 5/13] hrtimer: convert kernel/* " Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:09 ` [PATCH 6/13] hrtimer: convert powerpc/oprofile " Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:09 ` [PATCH 7/13] hrtimer: convert kvm-ia64 " Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:10 ` [PATCH 8/13] hrtimer: convert s390 " Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:11 ` [PATCH 9/13] hrtimer: convert sound/ " Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:12 ` [PATCH 10/13] hrtimer: rename the "expires" struct member to avoid accidental usage Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:13 ` [PATCH 11/13] hrtimer: turn hrtimers into range timers Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-02 8:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-02 11:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-02 11:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-02 13:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-02 13:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-02 13:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-02 16:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:14 ` [PATCH 12/13] hrtimer: create a "timer_slack" field in the task struct Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-02 10:04 ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-02 13:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-08 13:27 ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-08 13:40 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-09-08 14:15 ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-08 14:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-13 16:24 ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-14 15:21 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-09-14 15:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-14 15:57 ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-14 16:04 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-09-14 16:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-17 7:42 ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-30 5:16 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-09-30 8:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-30 8:54 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-09-01 23:14 ` [PATCH 13/13] hrtimer: make select() and poll() use the hrtimer range feature Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-02 8:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-02 16:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-06 14:56 ` [PATCH 0/13] Turn hrtimers into a range capable timer Ingo Molnar
2008-09-06 16:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-06 16:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-12 3:39 ` Rusty Russell
2008-09-12 5:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-12 20:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
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