Re: rfc: high-resolution timer framework

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20080714132622.GR22423%shisha.spb.ru@localhost>,
Alexander Shishkin  <alexander.shishkin%teleca.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:25:40PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
>> Hi,
>Hi,
>
>I have an updated version [1] now, which addresses most of the issues you
>pointed out. However, I wasn't yet able find a suitable solution for the
>locking problem around kpsignal() call. Otherwise, it should be much
>better now.
>
>It also occured to me that the whole 'struct ptimer' thing can be
>converted to use itimerspec instead of itimerval for storing
>time-related things, and only setitimer()/getitimer() would have to
>perform TIMESPEC_TO_TIMEVAL() conversion, which I suppose will result in
>slightly cleaner code. I can come up with a patch a bit later on.
>
>[1]: http://koowaldah.org/people/ash/netbsd/140708/

You mean like this:

ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/people/christos/timespec.diff

christos