Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:00:59 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt |
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Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote: > > A note on the relaive timer API: There needs to be a way to say > "x milliseconds from the time this timer should have triggered" instead > of "x milliseconds from now", to avoid skew in timers that try to be > strictly periodic.
mod_timer(timer, timer->expires + N) ?
(add_timer() will treat a negative `expires' as "right now", so we'll dtrt if the time now has overrun (timer->expires + N)) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.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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