From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
PARISC list <parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:54:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088290477.3790.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406261536590.16079@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Sad, 2004-06-26 at 23:48, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> "jiffies" is one of the few things that I accept as volatile, since it's
> basically read-only and accessed directly and has no internal structure
> (ie it's a single word).
For most uses jiffies should die. If drivers could not access jiffies
except by a (possibly trivial) helper then it would be a huge step
closer to being able to run embedded linux without a continually running
timer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-26 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-26 16:08 James Bottomley
2004-06-26 16:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 16:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 16:46 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 17:18 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 18:28 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-06-26 18:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 19:02 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 19:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 19:13 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-06-26 18:59 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-26 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 19:33 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-28 23:16 ` Jonathan Lundell
2004-07-01 13:11 ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-01 14:07 ` [parisc-linux] " Alan Cox
2004-07-01 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-01 16:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-01 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 22:18 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-26 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 22:54 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-06-27 0:05 ` [parisc-linux] " Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-27 12:00 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-27 22:41 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 1:24 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-28 5:42 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 6:55 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-28 7:02 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 7:19 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-06-27 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-01 13:33 ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-01 17:43 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-26 23:37 ` jiffies_64 Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-27 1:55 ` more (insane) jiffies ranting Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-27 17:39 ` Linus Torvalds
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