Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] new human-time soft-timer subsystem

2005-07-16 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 15.07.2005 [00:28:44 +0200], Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > We no longer use jiffies (the variable) as the basis for determining > > what "time" a timer should expire or when it should be added. Instead, > > we use a new function, do_monoton

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] new human-time soft-timer subsystem

2005-07-14 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > We no longer use jiffies (the variable) as the basis for determining > what "time" a timer should expire or when it should be added. Instead, > we use a new function, do_monotonic_clock(), which is simply a wrapper > for getnstimeofday(). And

[RFC][PATCH 0/4] new human-time soft-timer subsystem

2005-07-14 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 14.07.2005 [12:18:41 -0700], john stultz wrote: > Nish has some code, which I hope he'll be sending out shortly that > does just this, converting the soft-timer subsystem to use absolute > time instead of ticks for expiration. I feel it both simplifies the > code and makes it easier to changi