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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] enable hires timer to timeout datagram socket
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:44:58 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 11:55:21 -0700

> I agree. I would prefer to understand here what is the technical
> reason not to accept these patches other than "use other system
> calls".

I explained this, let me reiterate:

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And most importantly, letting the kernel have flexibility in this area
is absolutely essential for various forms of optimizations and power
savings.
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