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SubjectRe: [PATCH] hrtimer: make epoll_wait() use the hrtimer range feature
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Shawn Bohrer wrote:
>
> > This make epoll use hrtimers for the timeout value which prevents
> > epoll_wait() from timing out up to a millisecond early.
> >
> > This mirrors the behavior of select() and poll().
>
> I saw this now, since I got notifications from Andrew's patch machine.
> Is this really needed?

Yes, as it is the last user space interface which is jiffies based.

> Is that really worth the extra code in the fast path?

It's not that much overhead and we had no complaints when we converted
everything else

> Aren't we breaking existing behavior?

We had no problems when we moved all the other interfaces over

> I have some doubts.

/me not - though I need to look at the patch itself

Thanks,

tglx




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