linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/3] new timerfd API - wire the new timerfd API to the x86 family

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709240835030.23830@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:38:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@....net>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] new timerfd API - wire the new timerfd API to the
 x86 family

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote:

> Davide,
> 
> Is it perhaps not better to group the three syscalls contiguously with
> respect to syscall numbers?  The old timerfd slot can be re-used for some
> other syscall later.

There's no problem if they're not contiguous. Holes, unless filled 
immediately, need to be remembered to be filled.


- Davide


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