Re: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

Andi Kleen
2005-05-20T19:06:04Z

> I think the accepted and standard way to do this is to use different
> "clock"s. For example, in the HRT patch the clocks CLOCK_REALTIME_HR and
> CLOCK_MONOTONIC_HR are defined as high resolution clocks.

Note precision here can be fairly long - some timers dont even
if they run a minute earlier or later or even longer. For others
it can be rather small.

I dont think you want own clocks for all possible numbers. It makes
much more sense to give a numerical time offset.

-Andi