linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] schedule_timeout

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:34:42 -0400
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC] schedule_timeout_range()

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 21:26 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:12:02 -0400
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> > How about 'start' and 'end'? Or 'early' and 'late'? I really don't
> > care too much what it's called.
> 
> or "start" and "delta" ?

Yeah, that works -- it certainly makes a lot of sense for the
_userspace_ API to look like that. We could do the same for the
in-kernel one too...

-- 
dwmw2

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