From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 02:57:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 02:57:38 -0500 Received: from ffke-campus-gw.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:33484 "EHLO www.2ka.mipt.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 02:57:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:57:07 +0300 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: sekhar raja Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Doubt in Kernel Timers Message-Id: <20011127105707.15897491.johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <20011127070845.55943.qmail@web14510.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011127083602.0d19d985.johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> <20011127070845.55943.qmail@web14510.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru Organization: MIPT X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:08:45 -0800 (PST) sekhar raja wrote: > Do we need to Stop the timers if we want to Restart > the timers with new expiry time. You must simply use mod_timer() to change timer expires time. > I see in some implementations the timers are not > stoped before before they restart. Is it correct? T.e. they are *not* use del_timer() and after it add_timer() with new expires time? With del and add some races can arise. It is correct to use mod_timer(). > > Thanks in Advance > -Rajasekhar > --- WBR. //s0mbre