From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:53:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186185229.3153.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708032152060.1817@scrub.home>
>
> Actually the hrsleep() function would allow for submillisecond sleeps,
> which might be what some of the 450 users really want and they only use
> msleep(1) because it's the next best thing.
> A hrsleep() function is really what makes most sense from an API
> perspective.
I respectfully disagree. The power of msleep is that the unit of sleep
time is in the name; so in your proposal it would be hr_msleep or
somesuch. I much rather do the opposite in that case; make the "short"
name be the best implementation of the requested behavior, and have
qualifiers for allowing exceptions to that... least surprise and all
that.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-03 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-03 18:37 [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers Jonathan Corbet
2007-08-03 18:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-03 19:19 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-03 19:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-03 19:58 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-03 23:53 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-08-04 3:00 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-04 19:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-06 0:09 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-06 0:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-06 1:03 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-06 5:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-06 10:03 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-06 10:20 ` Manu Abraham
2007-08-06 15:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-07 10:40 ` Manu Abraham
2007-08-07 12:45 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-08 4:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-09 19:31 ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-08-09 20:01 ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-08-07 19:40 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-07 23:16 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-07 23:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-08 3:47 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-08 4:14 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-09 22:31 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-08 11:55 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 11:09 ` Manu Abraham
2007-08-08 11:52 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 11:59 ` Manu Abraham
2007-08-09 7:16 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-09 15:08 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2007-11-28 10:29 ` Andrew Morton
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