From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Eric St-Laurent <ericstl34@sympatico.ca>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>, Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: dynamic-hz
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:04:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103133841.3180.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1102983378.9865.11.camel@orbiter>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-15 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-11 14:23 dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-11 14:50 ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-12 6:57 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-11 21:41 ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-12 16:35 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-12 22:23 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-12 23:36 ` dynamic-hz Con Kolivas
2004-12-12 23:42 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 0:09 ` dynamic-hz Con Kolivas
2004-12-13 8:37 ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-13 10:43 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 11:08 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 19:36 ` dynamic-hz john stultz
2004-12-12 23:43 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 0:18 ` dynamic-hz Con Kolivas
2004-12-13 0:27 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 1:50 ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-13 11:28 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 12:43 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 12:58 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 19:12 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 20:34 ` dynamic-hz john stultz
2004-12-13 20:49 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 2:04 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] ` <20041214013924.GB14617@atomide.com>
2004-12-14 9:37 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 21:18 ` dynamic-hz Tony Lindgren
2004-12-14 22:06 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 23:00 ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-14 23:13 ` dynamic-hz Tony Lindgren
2004-12-22 20:02 ` dynamic-hz Tony Lindgren
2004-12-14 23:04 ` dynamic-hz Tony Lindgren
2004-12-14 2:46 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 19:24 ` dynamic-hz john stultz
2004-12-14 2:36 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 9:39 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 9:59 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 15:25 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 22:02 ` USB making time drift [was Re: dynamic-hz] Pavel Machek
2004-12-14 23:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-15 2:59 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-15 9:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-15 16:44 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-15 18:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-16 1:59 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-16 11:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-16 12:50 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-15 20:16 ` Pavel Machek
2004-12-16 2:02 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-15 17:03 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-15 17:48 ` Tim Schmielau
2004-12-16 2:03 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-16 0:58 ` Pavel Machek
2004-12-16 2:33 ` john stultz
2004-12-16 1:15 ` Time goes crazy in 2.6.9 after long cli [was Re: USB making time drift] Pavel Machek
2004-12-16 11:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-16 12:49 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-13 14:50 ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-13 7:43 ` dynamic-hz Stefan Seyfried
2004-12-13 13:58 ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 14:14 ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 14:52 ` dynamic-hz Alan Cox
2004-12-13 16:23 ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 17:53 ` dynamic-hz Michael Buesch
2004-12-13 18:04 ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 19:04 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 20:11 ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-14 0:16 ` dynamic-hz Eric St-Laurent
2004-12-15 18:04 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-12-15 19:54 ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-16 2:17 ` dynamic-hz Gene Heskett
2004-12-16 12:42 ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-17 20:12 ` dynamic-hz H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-16 9:10 ` dynamic-hz Gabriel Paubert
2004-12-16 12:17 ` dynamic-hz Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-12-16 14:00 ` dynamic-hz Mitchell Blank Jr
2004-12-13 15:30 ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-13 15:59 ` dynamic-hz Russell King
2004-12-13 16:14 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 16:06 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 16:19 ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-13 8:29 ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-14 22:54 ` dynamic-hz Lee Revell
2004-12-14 23:38 ` dynamic-hz Chris Friesen
2004-12-15 8:32 ` dynamic-hz Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-13 11:02 ` dynamic-hz Andrew Morton
2004-12-13 11:17 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 11:25 ` dynamic-hz Andrew Morton
2004-12-13 11:47 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 3:56 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 3:54 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 4:29 ` dynamic-hz Andrew Morton
2004-12-14 5:25 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-17 20:10 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 10:01 ` dynamic-hz Domen Puncer
2004-12-14 16:56 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 14:23 ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-14 16:54 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 17:15 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 17:42 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 18:29 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 19:00 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 18:22 ` dynamic-hz linux-os
2004-12-14 18:38 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 18:50 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 11:19 ` dynamic-hz Hans Kristian Rosbach
2004-12-13 11:22 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 11:39 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 12:51 ` dynamic-hz Hans Kristian Rosbach
2004-12-13 13:01 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 13:02 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 15:06 ` dynamic-hz Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-12-13 16:12 ` dynamic-hz Pavel Machek
2004-12-13 16:14 ` dynamic-hz Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-12-14 4:06 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-14 4:05 ` dynamic-hz Nish Aravamudan
2004-12-13 11:33 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 14:38 ` dynamic-hz Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-13 12:00 ` dynamic-hz Alan Cox
2004-12-13 15:52 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 22:28 ` dynamic-hz Lee Revell
2004-12-14 22:40 ` dynamic-hz Con Kolivas
2004-12-14 22:50 ` dynamic-hz Lee Revell
2004-12-13 20:26 ` dynamic-hz Olaf Hering
2004-12-13 22:41 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-13 20:56 ` dynamic-hz john stultz
2004-12-13 22:21 ` dynamic-hz Andrea Arcangeli
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