Re: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

George Anzinger
2005-05-21T01:12:50Z

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

That may be, but you will have a hard time finding a standard confroming way to
pass that info into the kernel. A few well chosen points should do it...

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