Subject: Re: Preparing callout(9) for a HZ-less kernel
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/23/2007 11:06:55
On Oct 23, 2007, at 7:54 AM, der Mouse wrote:
> For that matter, why couldn't we have a resizable array? That's
> what I
> used when I implemented timer sockets. (There's probably a reason
> which will be blindingly obvious to me once someone points it out....)
We don't want to have to do any allocations in order to schedule a
callout.
-- thorpej