Re: rfc: high-resolution timer framework

[Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin%teleca.com@localhost>]

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