Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: dynamic-hz | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:04:03 +0000 |
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On Maw, 2004-12-14 at 00:16, Eric St-Laurent wrote: > Alan, > > On a related subject, a few months ago you posted a patch which added a > nice add_timeout()/timeout_pending() API and converted many (if not > most) drivers to use it. > > If I remember correctly it did not generate much comments and the work > was not pushed into mainline. > > I think it's a nice cleanup, IMHO the time_(before|after)(jiffies, ...) > construct is horrible. > > Any chance to resurrect this work ?
I plan to ressurect it when I have a little time but with some small additions from the original work. Several people said "it should be mS not HZ" and someone at OLS proposed that the API also includes an accuracy guide so that systems using programmed wakeups can aggregate timers when accuracy doesn't matter.
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