Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753183AbaBFUuY (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:50:24 -0500 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:37940 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751319AbaBFUuX (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:50:23 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 21:50:26 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Alexey Perevalov cc: John Stultz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anton@enomsg.org, kyungmin.park@samsung.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, cw00.choi@samsung.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Deferrable timers support for timerfd API In-Reply-To: <52F3C8A5.708@samsung.com> Message-ID: References: <1389609835-24377-1-git-send-email-a.perevalov@samsung.com> <52DEC6A3.9020600@linaro.org> <52E606D8.6000401@samsung.com> <52F1DDA8.90605@samsung.com> <52F2B504.5010403@linaro.org> <52F3C8A5.708@samsung.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Alexey Perevalov wrote: > On 02/06/2014 02:16 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > As I truly understand, you decided - flags is better than new clockids, and > internals of timerfd could be a mix of timer_list and hrtimer. NO, NO, NO, NO. There is no mix of timer_list and hrtimer. Either we add proper deferrable support to hrtimers or the whole thing is not going to happen at all. There is no way that we bring back timer_list to user space interfaces. Period. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/