Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:35:16 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [take12 0/3] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:07:58 -0700
> I wonder whether designing-in a millisecond granularity is the right thing > to do. If in a few years the kernel is running tickless with high-res clock > interrupt sources, that might look a bit lumpy. > > Switching it to a __u64 nanosecond counter would be basically free on > 64-bit machines, and not very expensive on 32-bit, no?
If it ends up in a structure we'll need to use the "aligned_u64" type in order to avoid problems with 32-bit x86 binaries running on 64-bit kernels. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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