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SubjectRe: [tip:timers/core] timerfd: Allow timers to be cancelled when clock was set
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On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 15:52 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
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> No, fixed time spans have never been a problem, and are not the
> example here. It's about the normal wall clock, that wakes up every
> minute and updates the numbers on the screen.

'wakes up every minute' sounds like a fixed time interval to me.

Anyway, I still don't agree with the current implementation, its adding
overhead to timer fast-paths for a definite slow-path.



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