linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC] msleep() with hrtimers

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Message-ID: <20070716151812.GA25944@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:18:12 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] msleep() with hrtimers


* Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:

> In the end, I did this because I thought msleep() should do what it 
> claims to do, because I thought that getting a known-to-expire timeout 
> off the timer wheel made sense, and to make a tiny baby step in the 
> direction of reducing the use of jiffies in the core code.

yeah, fully agreed.

	Ingo
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