From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: george@mvista.com
Cc: bhavesh@avaya.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.11 timeval_to_jiffies() wrong for ms resolution timers
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 12:07:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4294BEE5.7030100@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4294BBE8.3030004@mvista.com>
George Anzinger wrote:
> Chris Friesen wrote:
>> What about telling it to wake up a jiffy earlier, then checking
>> whether the scheduling lag was enough to cause it to have waited the
>> full specified time. If not, put it to sleep for another jiffy.
> The user is, of course, free to do what ever they would like.
I actually meant doing this in the kernel.
> For a
> more complete solution you might be interested in HRT (High Res
> Timers). See my signature below.
Yep. One more patch to apply and worry about versions and maintenance.
Not enough of a demand for us to be able to use it, at least at this
point.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-25 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-24 22:59 2.6.11 timeval_to_jiffies() wrong for ms resolution timers Bhavesh P. Davda
2005-05-25 17:21 ` George Anzinger
2005-05-25 17:37 ` Chris Friesen
2005-05-25 17:54 ` George Anzinger
2005-05-25 18:07 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
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2005-05-25 19:06 Davda, Bhavesh P (Bhavesh)
2005-05-25 20:02 ` George Anzinger
2005-05-25 21:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-05-26 17:04 ` Olivier Croquette
2005-05-26 18:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-26 18:19 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-26 19:24 ` George Anzinger
2005-05-26 19:32 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-25 19:16 Davda, Bhavesh P (Bhavesh)
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