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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] high-res-timers patches for 2.6.6
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 05:02:23PM -0700, George Anzinger wrote:
>
>>Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 03:49, Geoff Levand wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Available at
>>>>http://tree.celinuxforum.org/pubwiki/moin.cgi/CELinux_5fPatchArchive
>>>>
>>>>For those interested, the set of three patches provide POSIX high-res
>>>>timer support for linux-2.6.6. The core and i386 patches are updates of
>>>>George Anzinger's hrtimers-2.6.5-1.0.patch available on SourceForge
>>>><http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/>. The ppc32 port is
>>>>not available on SourceForge yet.
>>>
>>>
>>>My first impression is that it has WAAAAAAAAAAAY too many ifdefs. I
>>>would strongly suggest to not make this a config option and just
>>>mandatory, it's a core feature that has no point in being optional. If
>>>you accept that, the code also becomes a *LOT* cleaner.
>>>
Can I be so bold as to ask about the changed to the timer list code? Assuming
we scrapped all the ifdefs, that is.

I have been thinking of a major rewrite which would leave this code alone, but
would introduce an additional list and, of course, overhead for high-res timers.
This will take some time and be sub optimal, so I wonder if it is needed.

--
George Anzinger george@mvista.com
High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml

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