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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [take15 4/4] kevent: Timer notifications.
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 15:39:57 +0200
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On Monday 04 September 2006 12:14, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> Timer notifications can be used for fine grained per-process time 
> management, since interval timers are very inconvenient to use, 
> and they are limited.

I guess this must have been discussed before, but why is this
not using high-resolution timers?

Are you planning to change this?

Maybe at least mention it in the description.

	Arnd <><