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

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Message-id: <52F51ACE.9060003@samsung.com>
Date:	Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:41:34 +0400
From:	Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@...sung.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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 02/07/2014 12:50 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
Ok, thank you, I'll work with you patch for hrtimers, and I'll rework 
current patch set.


-- 
Best regards,
Alexey Perevalov
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