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From: George Anzinger <george@wildturkeyranch.net>
To: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up of hrtimer code.
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:50:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43D0098D.5080000@wildturkeyranch.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137704954.7947.65.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Thomas Gleixner wrote:

>George,
>
>On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:53 -0800, George Anzinger wrote:
>  
>
>>>The assumption that the CLOCK_REALTIME/MONOTONIC relationship is valid
>>>for all additional clocks is not correct.
>>>      
>>>
>>Well, it is until it isn't.  There really does need to be a paring of some 
>>sort to sort out the ABS flag.
>>    
>>
>
>How is this applicable to some additional non posix clocks ? It applies
>to CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME, but nothing speaks against
>implementing CLOCK_WHATEVER with a totally different behaviour vs. the
>ABS_TIME flag. Am I missing something ?
>
>  
>
How ever it is done the selection of a base depends on the mode and the 
clock.  I suggested mapping this via
odd/ even, but, I think what is needed is some way to code this into 
hrtimer.c in a reasonable way.  Your choice, really.

-- 
George Anzinger   george@wildturkeyranch.net
HRT (High-res-timers):  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/


      reply	other threads:[~2006-01-19 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-19  1:54 George Anzinger
2006-01-19 20:18 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-19 20:53   ` George Anzinger
2006-01-19 21:09     ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-19 21:50       ` George Anzinger [this message]

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