Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:28:44 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] new human-time soft-timer subsystem |
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Hi,
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> We no longer use jiffies (the variable) as the basis for determining > what "time" a timer should expire or when it should be added. Instead, > we use a new function, do_monotonic_clock(), which is simply a wrapper > for getnstimeofday().
And suddenly a simple 32bit integer becomes a complex 64bit integer, which requires hardware access to read a timer and additional conversion into ns. Why is suddenly everyone so obsessed with molesting something simple and cute as jiffies?
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