Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:58:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:58:06 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:22545 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:57:49 -0400 Subject: Re: user-mode port 0.44-2.4.7 To: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com (Chris Friesen) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:57:07 +0100 (BST) Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli), jdike@karaya.com (Jeff Dike), user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net (user-mode-linux-user), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel), jh@suse.cz (Jan Hubicka) In-Reply-To: from "Chris Friesen" at Jul 23, 2001 04:44:06 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing > Suppose I loop against xtime reaching a particular value. While this is xtime isnt used this way that I can see. jiffies however is. There are good arguments for getting rid of most [ab]use of jiffies however. For one its pretty important to scaling on both big mainframes and beowulf setups doing heavy computation to reduce timer ticks - 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/