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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] clock_rtoffset: new syscall
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:32:13 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1104291931200.3005@ionos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303937755.1065.8.camel@zag>

Alexander,

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 16:02 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> > The completely untested patch below should solve the same problem in a
> > sane way. Restricted to timerfd, but that really should be sufficient.
> 
> > Subject: timerfd: Allow timers to be cancelled when clock was set
> > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:16:42 +0200
> 
> Seems to work fine for me here for the weird "cron timer" case, or the
> simple "desktop clock" use-case -- where we want to rely on the timer to
> let the process sleep as long as possible, but wake it up to recalculate
> the next wakeup in case anything has changed in the meantime.

is that sufficient to solve your problems as well?

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-29 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-09 14:36 [RFCv4] timerfd: add TFD_NOTIFY_CLOCK_SET to watch for clock changes Alexander Shishkin
2011-03-10  0:25 ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-10  0:36   ` Kay Sievers
2011-03-10  8:19     ` Alexander Shishkin
2011-03-10  9:08     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-10 11:16       ` Jamie Lokier
2011-03-10 11:41         ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-10  2:01   ` Scott James Remnant
2011-03-10  8:25     ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-11 19:51       ` Scott James Remnant
2011-03-11 19:56         ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-15  1:53           ` Scott James Remnant
2011-03-10  8:10   ` Alexander Shishkin
2011-03-10  8:02 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-03-10  8:15   ` Alexander Shishkin
2011-03-10  8:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-10 14:19   ` Alexander Shishkin
2011-03-10  9:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-10 14:12   ` Alexander Shishkin
2011-03-10 14:55     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-10 15:43       ` Alexander Shishkin
2011-03-10 16:40         ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-10 21:57     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-27 10:43       ` [RFC][PATCH 1/4] clock_rtoffset: new syscall Alexander Shishkin
2011-04-27 10:43         ` [RFC][PATCH 2/4] hrtimer: add cancellation when clock is set Alexander Shishkin
2011-04-27 10:43         ` [RFC][PATCH 3/4] hrtimer: add nanosleep cancellation Alexander Shishkin
2011-04-27 10:43         ` [RFC][PATCH 4/4] timerfd: add cancellation Alexander Shishkin
2011-04-27 14:02         ` [RFC][PATCH 1/4] clock_rtoffset: new syscall Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-27 19:11           ` john stultz
2011-04-27 22:19             ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-27 20:55           ` Kay Sievers
2011-04-29 17:32             ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2011-05-02  8:10               ` Alexander Shishkin
2011-04-28  7:15           ` Alexander Shishkin

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