Re: [patch] hrtimer: round up relative start time on low-res arches

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 13:20 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES is a temporary way for architectures to signal that 
> they simply return xtime in do_gettimeoffset(). In this corner-case we 
> want to round up by resolution when starting a relative timer, to avoid 
> short timeouts. This will go away with the GTOD framework.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>


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References:
- [PATCH 01/13] hrtimer: round up relative start time
  - From: Roman Zippel <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH 01/13] hrtimer: round up relative start time
  - From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH 01/13] hrtimer: round up relative start time
  - From: Roman Zippel <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH 01/13] hrtimer: round up relative start time
  - From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH 01/13] hrtimer: round up relative start time
  - From: Roman Zippel <[email protected]>
- [patch] hrtimer: round up relative start time on low-res arches
  - From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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