From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762977AbXHFKDT (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 06:03:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755549AbXHFKDF (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 06:03:05 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:3188 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760911AbXHFKDE (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 06:03:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:03:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Arjan van de Ven cc: Jonathan Corbet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers In-Reply-To: <1186378798.2697.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Message-ID: References: <15327.1186166232@lwn.net> <1186170407.3153.8.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1186185229.3153.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1186255149.2777.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1186360983.2697.8.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1186378798.2697.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > There's no problem to provide a high resolution sleep, but there is also > > no reason to mess with msleep, don't fix what ain't broken... > > John Corbet provided the patch because he had a problem with the current > msleep... in that it didn't provide as good a common case as he > wanted... so I think your statement is wrong ;) Only under the assumptation, that msleep _must_ be "fixed" for all other current users too. Give users a choice to use msleep or nanosleep, how do you know what's "best" for them? bye, Roman