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SubjectRe: [patch] change futex_wait() to hrtimers
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:10:06AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > I agree it should restart. But I don't think this is quite right in
> > the timeout case. It will increase the total maximum real time spent
> > arbitrarily by the amount of time elapsed in signal handlers. Other
> > restartable, timed calls have to convert to an absolute timeout for
> > the restart block (and convert back when doing the restart).
>
> i dont think we should try to do this. We should not and cannot do
> anything about all of the artifacts that comes with the use of relative
> timeouts and schedule_timeout().
>
> basically, using jiffies here (which schedule_timeout() does) is
> /fundamentally/ imprecise. If you get many interrupts, rounding errors
> sum up - and there's nothing we can do about it!

Well I did convert futex_wait to an absolute timeout based version in
the subsequent incremental patch. I think that is OK?
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