Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161442AbWASVvm (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:51:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161443AbWASVvm (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:51:42 -0500 Received: from gw02.applegatebroadband.net ([207.55.227.2]:19447 "EHLO data.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161442AbWASVvl (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:51:41 -0500 Message-ID: <43D0098D.5080000@wildturkeyranch.net> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:50:05 -0800 From: George Anzinger Reply-To: george@mwildturkeyranch.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tglx@linutronix.de CC: Lee Revell , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up of hrtimer code. References: <43CEF172.2000308@mvista.com> <1137701896.7947.56.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43CFFC60.8010405@mvista.com> <1137704954.7947.65.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1137704954.7947.65.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1218 Lines: 37 Thomas Gleixner wrote: >George, > >On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:53 -0800, George Anzinger wrote: > > >>>The assumption that the CLOCK_REALTIME/MONOTONIC relationship is valid >>>for all additional clocks is not correct. >>> >>> >>Well, it is until it isn't. There really does need to be a paring of some >>sort to sort out the ABS flag. >> >> > >How is this applicable to some additional non posix clocks ? It applies >to CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME, but nothing speaks against >implementing CLOCK_WHATEVER with a totally different behaviour vs. the >ABS_TIME flag. Am I missing something ? > > > How ever it is done the selection of a base depends on the mode and the clock. I suggested mapping this via odd/ even, but, I think what is needed is some way to code this into hrtimer.c in a reasonable way. Your choice, really. -- George Anzinger george@wildturkeyranch.net HRT (High-res-timers): http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ - 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/