Re: [PATCH] ktimers subsystem 2.6.14-rc2-kt5

[Ingo Molnar]

* Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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