On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Davide Libenzi wrote:
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> On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Shawn Bohrer wrote:
> 
> > This make epoll use hrtimers for the timeout value which prevents
> > epoll_wait() from timing out up to a millisecond early.
> > 
> > This mirrors the behavior of select() and poll().
> 
> I saw this now, since I got notifications from Andrew's patch machine.
> Is this really needed?

Yes, as it is the last user space interface which is jiffies based.

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> Is that really worth the extra code in the fast path?

It's not that much overhead and we had no complaints when we converted
everything else

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> Aren't we breaking existing behavior?

We had no problems when we moved all the other interfaces over

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> I have some doubts.

/me not - though I need to look at the patch itself

Thanks,

	tglx


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