linux-kernel - Re: [take12 0/3] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

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Date:	Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:22:14 +0400
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Jari Sundell <sundell.software@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	nmiell@...cast.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	drepper@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, zach.brown@...cle.com,
	hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [take12 0/3] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:09:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton (akpm@...l.org) wrote:
> > I can put nanoseconds as timer interval too (with aligned_u64 as David
> > mentioned), and put it for timeout value too - 64 bit nanosecods ends up
> > with 58 years, probably enough.
> > Structures with u64 a really not so good idea.
> > 
> 
> OK.  One could do u32 seconds/u32 nsecs, but a simple aligned_u64 will be
> better for 64-bit machines, and OK for 32-bit.

aligned_u64 is not exported to userspace, so in the last patchset I just
use __u64 as syscall parameter.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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