Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932502AbVLBAqf (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:46:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932585AbVLBAqf (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:46:35 -0500 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:3805 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932502AbVLBAqe (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:46:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 01:46:14 +0100 (CET) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Kyle Moffett cc: Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, ray-gmail@madrabbit.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, george@mvista.com, johnstul@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [patch 00/43] ktimer reworked In-Reply-To: <7D53372C-E138-4336-883F-A674BBBB09AA@mac.com> Message-ID: References: <1133395019.32542.443.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <23CA09D3-4C11-4A4B-A5C6-3C38FA9C203D@mac.com> <2c0942db0512010822x1ae20622obf224ce9728e83f8@mail.gmail.com> <20051201165144.GC31551@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051201122455.4546d1da.akpm@osdl.org> <20051201211933.GA25142@elte.hu> <20051201135139.3d1c10df.akpm@osdl.org> <7D53372C-E138-4336-883F-A674BBBB09AA@mac.com> 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 Content-Length: 1042 Lines: 25 Hi, On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Kyle Moffett wrote: > A timeout (like waiting for somebody to answer the phone) is optimized to > never happen (they will hopefully pick up first). If everything works > perfectly; it will be stopped before it has a chance to go off. > > A timer (like a kitchen timer telling you the cookies are done) is optimized > to be added and sit around until it expires. You just don't turn off the > timer and take the cookies out before they are done. Making this the primary criteria for choosing a timer system would be a huge mistake. As I wrote in a previous mail there are other, more important criteria. So far I still thought this was about kernel programming and not about Aunt Tillies cooking show. Can we please bring this back to a technical level? bye, Roman - 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/