Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:50:10 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [patch] smptimers, old BH removal, tq-cleanup, 2.5.39 |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > 3) Maybe this is an improvement worth considering, maybe not: I think > it would be useful to have "process context timers." What I mean by > this is, make it easier to implement code that can be boiled down to: > run in process context > sleep for a little while > Sure I can do this by implementing a timer that does nothing more than > call schedule_task(), but that seems a little redundant if done in > multiple places :)
To sum, I guess I want something to "run schedule_task() [at least] NN usecs from now." schedule_task_future() ?
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