* Roman Zippel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > and no, ktimers are not "optimized for process usage" (or tied to
> > whatever other process notion, as i said before), they are optimized
> > for:
> >
> > - the delivery of time related events
> >
> > as contrasted to the timeout-API (a'ka "timer wheel") code in
> > kernel/timers.c that is optimized towards:
> >
> > - the fast adding/removal of timers
> >
> > without too much focus on robust and deterministic delivery of events.
>
> You forgot the main property of high resolution, which implies a
> higher maintainance cost.
what did i forget? I did not mention "high resolution" anywhere. And
what precisely do you mean by "higher maintainance cost"?
Ingo
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