Re: rfc: high-resolution timer framework

["Cherry G. Mathew" <cherry.g.mathew%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 17 November 2008 13:30, Alexander Shishkin
<alexander.shishkin%teleca.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:47:56PM +0000, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
>> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:10:28PM +0000, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
>> > > Any concerns on this patch?
>> >
>> > Hooking this into timecounters is a completely wrong abstraction.
>> > I'm fine with the userland side, but the kernel internals are simply
>> > wrong.
>>
>> It seems we agree that a long-term solution would be basing everything on
>> callouts, however this code could still be a short-term solution.
> It's not quite like a short-term solution, but more a first step in the
> general direction of kernel high-resolution timers. Existing callouts
> interface would have to be changed as well to achieve what we're after.
> Some ideas were mentioned on the wiki page [1].
>
> [1]: http://wiki.netbsd.se/high_resolution_timers#Roadmap
>
> Regards,
> --
> Alex
>

Did this code ever get committed/tested/reworked ?

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~Cherry