| From: |
| Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> |
| To: |
| linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org |
| Subject: |
| [PATCH 0/13] Turn hrtimers into a range capable timer |
| Date: |
| Mon, 1 Sep 2008 16:03:43 -0700 |
| Message-ID: |
| <20080901160343.75a89ec9@infradead.org> |
| Cc: |
| torvalds@linux-foundation.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
drepper@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@tglx.de |
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This series is a follow-on the the nanosecond select/poll series.
The goal of this series is to introduce the capability into hrtimers to
deal with a "range" rather than a specific point in time.
(Several people discussed this recently, but we've been toying with the
concept for a while)
In addition, in the last patch of the series, the patches make select()
and poll() use these range timers with a standard "slack" that comes
from
1) a per process task_struct value
2) a "the longer the sleep the more the slack" function that Linus wrote