RE: RFC: better timer interface

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On Tue, 23 May 2017, David Laight wrote:

> From: Thomas Gleixner
> > Sent: 21 May 2017 19:15
> ...
> > > timer_start(timer, ms, abs)
> > 
> > I'm not even sure, whether we need absolute timer wheel timers at
> > all, because most use cases are relative to now.
> 
> Posix requires absolute timers for some userspace calls
> (annoying because the code often wants relative).

Posix is completely irrelevant here. These timers are purely kernel
internal.

Thanks,

	tglx
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