On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 19:02 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 09:37 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > just doesn't realize that the latter is a bit more complicated exactly > > because the latter is a hell of a lot more POWERFUL. Trying to get rid of > > jiffies for some religious reason is _stupid_. > > I have nothing religious against jiffies per se. My argument however is > that with a few simple, relative interfaces *in addition* to an absolute > interface, almost all drivers suddenly are isolated from jiffies and HZ > because they simply don't care. Because they really DON'T care about > absolute time. At all. We'll I'd probably put it as: "they do care about absolute time, but they do not care about ticks or timer interrupt frequency" thanks -john - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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