Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932373AbWHWHny (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:43:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932378AbWHWHnx (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:43:53 -0400 Received: from nf-out-f131.google.com ([64.233.182.131]:63662 "EHLO nf-out-f131.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932373AbWHWHnx (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:43:53 -0400 Message-ID: <5640c7e00608230043h17d330c0ka46de63cfb5bf7de@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:43:50 +1200 From: "Ian McDonald" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: [take12 0/3] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. Cc: "Evgeniy Polyakov" , "Jari Sundell" , "David Miller" , kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, nmiell@comcast.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, zach.brown@oracle.com, hch@infradead.org In-Reply-To: <20060823000758.5ebed7dd.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060822231129.GA18296@ms2.inr.ac.ru> <20060822.173200.126578369.davem@davemloft.net> <20060823065659.GC24787@2ka.mipt.ru> <20060823000758.5ebed7dd.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 938 Lines: 24 > I wonder whether designing-in a millisecond granularity is the right thing > to do. If in a few years the kernel is running tickless with high-res clock > interrupt sources, that might look a bit lumpy. > I'd second that - when working on DCCP I've done a lot of the work in microseconds and it made quite a difference instead of milliseconds because of it's design. I haven't followed kevents in great detail but it sounds like something that could be useful for me with higher resolution timers than milliseconds. -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand - 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/