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

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Message-Id: <1186185229.3153.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:53:49 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers


> 
> Actually the hrsleep() function would allow for submillisecond sleeps, 
> which might be what some of the 450 users really want and they only use
> msleep(1) because it's the next best thing.
> A hrsleep() function is really what makes most sense from an API 
> perspective.

I respectfully disagree. The power of msleep is that the unit of sleep
time is in the name; so in your proposal it would be hr_msleep or
somesuch. I much rather do the opposite in that case; make the "short"
name be the best implementation of the requested behavior, and have
qualifiers for allowing exceptions to that... least surprise and all
that.
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