On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Shawn Bohrer 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(). > > > > I saw this now, since I got notifications from Andrew's patch machine. > > Is this really needed? > > Yes, as it is the last user space interface which is jiffies based. What? You killed jiffies?! :) Alright then, the patch itself, besides the different bahavior on timeout greater/equal to EP_MAX_MSTIMEO (which is not documented, hence does not exist), looks OK to me. - Davide -- 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
