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SubjectRe: [patch 00/43] ktimer reworked
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On Nov 30, 2005, at 22:32, Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> but what we'd like to achieve as an end-result is the clear
>> separation of 'timer' vs. 'timeout' APIs. Our proposed end result
>> would be to have 'struct ktimer' for timers, and 'struct ktimeout'
>> for timeouts.
>
> Sorry, but calling it "ktimeout" would be completely wrong.
>
> "timeout" is a rather imprecise term, which can have different
> meanings depending on the context, e.g. any timer usually has a
> "timeout value", but what is meant here is a "timeout timer". So
> basically this is supposed to be about "timer" vs "timeout timer".
> [snip lengthy discussion]

If I recall correctly, this whole naming mess has been discussed to
death before, with the result that almost everybody but Roman thought
the names were perfectly clear such that a timer is _expected_ to
expire and a timeout is not, therefore timers should be optimized for
add=>run=>expire and timeouts optimized for add=>run=>remove.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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