linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Deferrable timers support for timerfd API

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1402062148440.21991@ionos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:	Thu, 6 Feb 2014 21:50:26 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@...sung.com>
cc:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	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

On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Alexey Perevalov wrote:
> On 02/06/2014 02:16 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> As I truly understand, you decided - flags is better than new clockids, and
> internals of timerfd could be a mix of timer_list and hrtimer.

NO, NO, NO, NO. There is no mix of timer_list and hrtimer. Either we
add proper deferrable support to hrtimers or the whole thing is not
going to happen at all. There is no way that we bring back timer_list
to user space interfaces. Period.

Thanks,

	tglx


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