From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] timer: Add a mod_timer_msec() API function
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:14:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091124101402.0214c919@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0911231728200.24119@localhost.localdomain>
> If there are a few timers which really need large and precise timeouts
> its easy enough to switch them over to hrtimers.
>
> Thoughts ?
Seems good to me - also fits with the long term need to push the core
timer handling into the hypervisor when running lots of VMs as it will
make it easy to keep all the VM timers lined up with each other
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-24 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-22 23:41 [patch] timer: Add a mod_timer_msec() API function Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-22 23:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-23 8:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-23 14:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-23 17:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-11-24 10:14 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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