I'd say this is an epoll patch, not an hrtimer patch. So I renamed it to "epoll: make epoll_wait() use the hrtimer range feature". Davide looks after epoll, so let's cc him. On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:45:32 -0500 Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This make epoll use hrtimers for the timeout value which prevents > epoll_wait() from timing out up to a millisecond early. > > This mirrors the behavior of select() and poll(). > > ... > > --- a/fs/eventpoll.c > +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c Davide stuff ;) > --- a/fs/select.c > +++ b/fs/select.c > @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ static long __estimate_accuracy(struct timespec *tv) > return slack; > } > > -static long estimate_accuracy(struct timespec *tv) > +long estimate_accuracy(struct timespec *tv) "estimate_accuracy" is a rotten name for a global symbol. I queued a preparatory patch which renames this to "select_estimate_accuracy". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
