Re: [PATCH] Clean up of hrtimer code.

[George Anzinger]

Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> George,
>
> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:53 -0800, George Anzinger wrote:
>  
>
> > > The assumption that the CLOCK_REALTIME/MONOTONIC relationship is valid
> > > for all additional clocks is not correct.
> > >      
> > Well, it is until it isn't.  There really does need to be a paring of some 
> > sort to sort out the ABS flag.
> >    
>
> How is this applicable to some additional non posix clocks ? It applies
> to CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME, but nothing speaks against
> implementing CLOCK_WHATEVER with a totally different behaviour vs. the
> ABS_TIME flag. Am I missing something ?
>
>  
How ever it is done the selection of a base depends on the mode and the 
clock.  I suggested mapping this via
odd/ even, but, I think what is needed is some way to code this into 
hrtimer.c in a reasonable way.  Your choice, really.

--
George Anzinger   george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
HRT (High-res-timers):  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/

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