Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] hrtimer: Add support for deferrable timer into the hrtimer

[John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>]

On 02/20/2014 01:18 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, John Stultz wrote:
>> On 02/20/2014 12:40 AM, Alexey Perevalov wrote:
>>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/time.h b/include/uapi/linux/time.h
>>> index e75e1b6..bb8dc60 100644
>>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/time.h
>>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/time.h
>>> @@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ struct itimerval {
>>>  #define CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM		9
>>>  #define CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE			10	/* Hardware specific */
>>>  #define CLOCK_TAI			11
>>> +#define CLOCK_REALTIME_DEFERRABLE	12
>>> +#define CLOCK_MONOTONIC_DEFERRABLE	13
>>> +#define CLOCK_BOOTTIME_DEFERRABLE	14
>> Adding the deferrable HRTIMER bases above is right, but I don't think we
>> agreed on adding the _DEFERRABLE clockids.
>>
>> I'd instead prefer you use add a new TIMER_DEFERABLE flags argument, and
>> use the combination of the clockid + flag to decide which HRTIMER base
>> is used.
> And how does that work with anything else than timerfd? If we add
> deferrable posix clocks then we add them for the other interfaces
> which take a clockid as well.
Other interfaces have flag arguments as well (for things like
TIMER_ABSTIME).

thanks
-john