Hi,
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> why you insist on ktimers being 'process timers'?
Because they are optimized for process usage. OTOH kernel usage is more
than just "timeouts".
> so to answer your question: it is totally possible for a watchdog
> mechanism to use ktimers. In fact it would be desirable from a
> robustness POV too:
"possible" and "desirable" is still different from "preferable", as they
involve a higher cost.
> e.g. we dont want a watchdog from being
> overload-able via too many timeouts in the timer wheel ...
Please explain.
bye, Roman
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