Re: [PATCH/RFC] msleep() with hrtimers

Ingo Molnar
2007-07-16T15:18:32Z

* Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:

> In the end, I did this because I thought msleep() should do what it
> claims to do, because I thought that getting a known-to-expire timeout
> off the timer wheel made sense, and to make a tiny baby step in the
> direction of reducing the use of jiffies in the core code.

yeah, fully agreed.

Ingo