Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760876AbXHFFl1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 01:41:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752811AbXHFFlT (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 01:41:19 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:40248 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752319AbXHFFlS (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 01:41:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers From: Arjan van de Ven To: Roman Zippel Cc: Jonathan Corbet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: References: <15327.1186166232@lwn.net> <1186170407.3153.8.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1186185229.3153.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1186255149.2777.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1186360983.2697.8.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:39:58 -0700 Message-Id: <1186378798.2697.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-2.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 792 Lines: 18 On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 03:03 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > There's no problem to provide a high resolution sleep, but there is also > no reason to mess with msleep, don't fix what ain't broken... John Corbet provided the patch because he had a problem with the current msleep... in that it didn't provide as good a common case as he wanted... so I think your statement is wrong ;) -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - 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/