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On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:56:29 +1000 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Rather than specific "deadline" values (which we can't guarantee > anyway), or vague "can defer" values, I would prefer just a small > selection of maybe orders of magnitude flags, maybe SECONDS, > MILLISECONDS, MICROSECONDS which gives an amount of delay the kernel > might add to the timer. the problem is that many of these are "I'd like a timeout between 30 and ..eh 40 seconds" (think scsi timeouts or networkcard timeouts) it's not just specific slack units. > -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org | ||||||||||||
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