From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC] schedule_timeout_range()
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:34:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216701282.18980.67.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080721212618.42493d12@infradead.org>
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 21:26 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:12:02 -0400
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > How about 'start' and 'end'? Or 'early' and 'late'? I really don't
> > care too much what it's called.
>
> or "start" and "delta" ?
Yeah, that works -- it certainly makes a lot of sense for the
_userspace_ API to look like that. We could do the same for the
in-kernel one too...
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-22 4:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-22 3:02 [RFC] Imprecise timers David Woodhouse
2008-07-22 3:05 ` [RFC] schedule_timeout_range() David Woodhouse
2008-07-22 3:56 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-22 4:12 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-22 4:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-22 4:34 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2008-07-22 4:33 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-22 4:45 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-22 4:50 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-22 4:58 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-22 5:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-22 4:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-22 7:19 ` [RFC] Imprecise timers Rene Herman
2008-07-22 12:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-22 14:04 ` Rene Herman
2008-07-29 0:36 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-08-09 12:54 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-11 17:35 ` Venki Pallipadi
2008-08-12 12:00 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-12 18:11 ` Venki Pallipadi
2008-08-12 21:55 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-12 21:58 ` Pavel Machek
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2008-07-23 11:52 ` [RFC] schedule_timeout_range() Bodo Eggert
2008-07-24 0:53 ` Nick Piggin
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