Re: rfc: high-resolution timer framework

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@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.
> 
> Can we come up with some conclusion?

I think this is something that we really want to have, but the functionality
should be provided through / merged with callouts instead of inventing
another API to exist in parallel. There are too many similarities.

Thanks,
Andrew