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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:30:09 +0400 From: Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@...sung.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, john.stultz@...aro.org Cc: Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@...sung.com>, anton@...msg.org, kyungmin.park@...sung.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, cw00.choi@...sung.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Deferrable timers support for timerfd API Hello all, one remark - timerfd is not documented in linux Documentation directory at all. I think it's better to have such description. On 01/13/2014 02:43 PM, Alexey Perevalov wrote: > Hello dear community. > > This is reworked patch set of original Anton's Vorontsov > proposal regarding unified deferrable timers in the user space. > http://lwn.net/Articles/514707/ > > > I decided to resubmit it due we found it usefull for us too. > > timerfd was modified since Anton's commit, Alarm support was added. > This isn't only rebase. Anton's previous version used deferrable timer > in couple with hrtimer. This version uses only deferrable timer. It > mean the behaviour of overrun number is different. > e.g. if you don't poll one second timer for a 10 seconds - you'll get > 10 overruns with hrtimer, but for deferrable timer it could be another value. > > Anton Vorontsov (3): > kernel/time: Add new helpers to convert ktime to/from jiffies > timerfd: Factor out timer-type unspecific timerfd_expire() > timerfd: Add support for deferrable timers > > fs/timerfd.c | 127 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ > include/linux/jiffies.h | 4 +- > include/linux/ktime.h | 3 +- > include/linux/timerfd.h | 4 +- > kernel/time.c | 23 +++++++++ > 5 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) > -- Best regards, Alexey Perevalov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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