From: "Manu Abraham" <abraham.manu@gmail.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Roman Zippel" <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:09:14 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a297b360708080409tfc9dee5mb92c216919bffc1e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73ps1ys0jz.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
On 08 Aug 2007 13:55:28 +0200, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> >
> > I'd be surprised if there was significant overhead - the maximum frequency
> > at which msleep() can be called is 1000Hz. We'd need an awful lot of
> > overhead for that to cause problems, surely?
>
> The bigger risk is probably to break drivers that rely on msleep(1)
> really being msleep( very long depending on HZ )
>
> But the only way to find out is to try it.
Well, i am quite sure a lot of drivers will be broken. But well .. if
it is for the better, guess, never mind ...
Manu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-08 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-03 18:37 Jonathan Corbet
2007-08-03 18:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-03 19:19 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-03 19:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-03 19:58 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-03 23:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-04 3:00 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-04 19:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-06 0:09 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-06 0:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-06 1:03 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-06 5:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-06 10:03 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-06 10:20 ` Manu Abraham
2007-08-06 15:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-07 10:40 ` Manu Abraham
2007-08-07 12:45 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-08 4:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-09 19:31 ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-08-09 20:01 ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-08-07 19:40 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-07 23:16 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-07 23:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-08 3:47 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-08 4:14 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-09 22:31 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-08 11:55 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 11:09 ` Manu Abraham [this message]
2007-08-08 11:52 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 11:59 ` Manu Abraham
2007-08-09 7:16 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-09 15:08 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2007-11-28 10:29 ` Andrew Morton
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