Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 12:34:10 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: New event timers infrastructure Message-ID: <20100607103410.GZ56080@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <4C0CAD43.20102@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C0C1AE4.8050807@FreeBSD.org> <20100607081356.GY56080@hoeg.nl> <4C0CAD43.20102@FreeBSD.org>
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--/IS0x6j0ns1j6BpZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Alexander, * Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Ed Schouten wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, how does this work relate to things like having a > > tickless kernel? >=20 > It is almost mandatory prerequisite. We can't do any fancy timer stuff > without unified timer API. Tsuyoshi Ozawa in his Dynamic Ticks work also > got to the same conclusion, but he was much less aggressive in rewriting > legacy code. That's just what I wanted to hear. Thanks! --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ --/IS0x6j0ns1j6BpZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkwMyyIACgkQ52SDGA2eCwVMIgCeNGmb+AQG0MtUQ3D5+TYKWity YuIAn2z3AWWGBY5N+XJhgTNvlxY9wXiT =X7am -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/IS0x6j0ns1j6BpZ--
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