Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:55:45 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New "timeout" api, to replace callout Message-ID: <20071202.085545.177225588.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <19518.1196609689@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20071202072658.A9217@xorpc.icir.org> <19518.1196609689@critter.freebsd.dk>
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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: >"periodically with whatever period is convenient to you" is
: >a legitimate request that client code might have.
: >(I understand that this concept of time is very southern european :)
:
: I disagree, that case, should be "with a period between N and M,
: at your choice".
:
: And yes, it may be that we need to extend the API for that, but
: please give a concrete example so we know what we're talking about.
There are a number of places in the tree that use a parameter of '1'
today to mean "next time that's convenient." Some of these places are
clever and know that HZ is never < 100 or > 1000 (or so they think),
while others are just sloppy code.
Warner
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