Re: [PATCH 4/5] select: make select() use schedule_hrtimeout()

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 29 August 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> This is only done for delays shorter than 1 second; currently
> the assumption is that longer delays have no desire to get the
> higher accuracy.

What is the tradeoff here? Where is the advantage in using the
traditional timer interface for longer timeouts?

	Arnd <><
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