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SubjectRe: [RFC] A more general timeout specification
Andi Kleen wrote:
>>I think the accepted and standard way to do this is to use different
>>"clock"s. For example, in the HRT patch the clocks CLOCK_REALTIME_HR and
>>CLOCK_MONOTONIC_HR are defined as high resolution clocks.
>
>
> Note precision here can be fairly long - some timers dont even
> if they run a minute earlier or later or even longer. For others
> it can be rather small.
>
> I dont think you want own clocks for all possible numbers. It makes
> much more sense to give a numerical time offset.

That may be, but you will have a hard time finding a standard confroming way to
pass that info into the kernel. A few well chosen points should do it...

>
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George Anzinger george@mvista.com
High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
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