Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965059AbWIENkH (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:40:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965052AbWIENkG (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:40:06 -0400 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:29870 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965036AbWIENkC (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:40:02 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann Organization: IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH To: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: [take15 4/4] kevent: Timer notifications. Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 15:39:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: lkml , David Miller , Ulrich Drepper , Andrew Morton , netdev , Zach Brown , Christoph Hellwig , Chase Venters References: <11573648632380@2ka.mipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <11573648632380@2ka.mipt.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609051539.58492.arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 652 Lines: 18 On Monday 04 September 2006 12:14, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > Timer notifications can be used for fine grained per-process time > management, since interval timers are very inconvenient to use, > and they are limited. I guess this must have been discussed before, but why is this not using high-resolution timers? Are you planning to change this? Maybe at least mention it in the description. Arnd <>< - 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/