Re: [PATCH] Add schedule_timeout_{interruptible,uninterruptible}{,_msecs}() interfaces

[Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>]

On 23.07.2005 [15:29:42 +0200], Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > jiffies/HZ is the more powerful API. The msec one which also sets
> > current to (un)interruptible is the simplified wrapper on top.
> 
> So why do you want to hide it? Make the jiffies based API the primary one 
> and add some convenience functions, where we BTW could convert already 
> constants at compile time.

We are not hiding anything; we are providing an alternative for those
users that would like to request wall-time (human-time) units -- those
users do not (or should not, if nothing else) expect any kind of
precision from the sleeping path.

Thanks,
Nish
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