Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932652AbZKXKb6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:31:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932617AbZKXKb6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:31:58 -0500 Received: from mga10.intel.com ([192.55.52.92]:44059 "EHLO fmsmga102.fm.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932612AbZKXKb5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:31:57 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,275,1257148800"; d="scan'208";a="516844799" Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:14:02 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] timer: Add a mod_timer_msec() API function Message-ID: <20091124101402.0214c919@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20091122154111.197e1a8a@infradead.org> <20091123082648.GB13186@elte.hu> <20091123065108.1fd78779@infradead.org> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 591 Lines: 13 > If there are a few timers which really need large and precise timeouts > its easy enough to switch them over to hrtimers. > > Thoughts ? Seems good to me - also fits with the long term need to push the core timer handling into the hypervisor when running lots of VMs as it will make it easy to keep all the VM timers lined up with each other -- 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/