Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:27:37 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/13] hrtimer: create a "timer_slack" field in the task struct |
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On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:21:26 -0700 "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@gmail.com> wrote:
> The prctl() way plus a default non-zero value is the best way for > legacy apps. And you'll hopefully get your wish that apps will take > fate into their own hand by specifying the slack themselves. Arjan's > proposal also introduces new poll/select-like interface which take the > additional slack value (at least that's what we discussed before).
I have not posted the code for this yet (the patch set is huge already :0) but yes it's going to happen. You and I do need to figure out what a sensible interface will be for these ;-)
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