Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754766AbYH2Pga (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:36:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751413AbYH2PgW (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:36:22 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]:58926 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750971AbYH2PgV (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:36:21 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] select: make select() use schedule_hrtimeout() Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:36:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@tglx.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org References: <20080829080549.6906b744@infradead.org> <20080829080809.0e42a323@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20080829080809.0e42a323@infradead.org> X-Face: I@=L^?./?$U,EK.)V[4*>`zSqm0>65YtkOe>TFD'!aw?7OVv#~5xd\s,[~w]-J!)|%=]>=?utf-8?q?+=0A=09=7EohchhkRGW=3F=7C6=5FqTmkd=5Ft=3FLZC=23Q-=60=2E=60Y=2Ea=5E?= =?utf-8?q?3zb?=) =?utf-8?q?+U-JVN=5DWT=25cw=23=5BYo0=267C=26bL12wWGlZi=0A=09=7EJ=3B=5Cwg?= =?utf-8?q?=3B3zRnz?=,J"CT_)=\H'1/{?SR7GDu?WIopm.HaBG=QYj"NZD_[zrM\Gip^U MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808291736.09400.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/awFnhnUfQrKBsX3V93Rhfv7tZtb4PrOke6oC nBkqWQjJ0hXTnVapN32Gg9sfxXz+tTxo+q0XtRzZACfPPox9fH a1sjA/8Q7q4RKNBygHjEA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 567 Lines: 14 On Friday 29 August 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > This is only done for delays shorter than 1 second; currently > the assumption is that longer delays have no desire to get the > higher accuracy. What is the tradeoff here? Where is the advantage in using the traditional timer interface for longer timeouts? 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/