Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751074AbVLGOPk (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:15:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751076AbVLGOPk (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:15:40 -0500 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.88]:51440 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751071AbVLGOPj (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:15:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: "dlang@dlang.diginsite.com" <4396ACF5.3050204@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <0EA7F687-BB3F-4CC2-953E-EEA057F6FC44@mac.com> Cc: James Bruce , David Lang , Steven Rostedt , johnstul@us.ibm.com, george@mvista.com, mingo@elte.hu, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , ray-gmail@madrabbit.org, Russell King Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: [patch 00/43] ktimer reworked Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:15:32 -0500 To: Roman Zippel X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1508 Lines: 36 On Dec 07, 2005, at 07:34, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, James Bruce wrote: >> And that's the whole *point* about how we got here. Let the low >> resolution, low lifetime timeouts stay on the timer wheel, and >> make a new approach that specializes in handling longer lifetime, >> higher resolution timers. That's ktimers in a nutshell. You seem >> to be arguing for it rather than against it. > > I do, just without the focus on the lifetime, which is really > unimportant for most kernel developers. It _is_ important. Not because kernel developers do care about it, but because it's important for reasons of its own and therefore they should. Networking timeouts and highres audio timers are two _VERY_ different applications of "do this thing then", and kernel developers should be made aware of them. If you disagree, please explain in detail exactly why you think the lifetime is unimportant. I have yet to see an email regarding this, and I've searched the archives pretty carefully, in addition to watching this thread. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- I lost interest in "blade servers" when I found they didn't throw knives at people who weren't supposed to be in your machine room. -- Anthony de Boer - 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/