From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755640AbYGVEfJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:35:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751385AbYGVEe5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:34:57 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:60368 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751302AbYGVEe5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:34:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] schedule_timeout_range() From: David Woodhouse To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Nick Piggin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: <20080721212618.42493d12@infradead.org> References: <1216695757.18980.16.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1216695942.18980.19.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <200807221356.29892.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <1216699922.18980.66.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080721212618.42493d12@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:34:42 -0400 Message-Id: <1216701282.18980.67.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 21:26 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:12:02 -0400 > David Woodhouse wrote: > > > How about 'start' and 'end'? Or 'early' and 'late'? I really don't > > care too much what it's called. > > or "start" and "delta" ? Yeah, that works -- it certainly makes a lot of sense for the _userspace_ API to look like that. We could do the same for the in-kernel one too... -- dwmw2