Re: [PATCH] RTC: Add mmap method to rtc character driver

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sat Jul 29 2006 - 09:56:36 EST


At Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:39:01 -0400,
Jim Gettys wrote:
>
> Keith's the expert (who wrote the smart scheduler): I'd take a wild ass
> guess that 10ms is good enough.
>
> Maybe people can keep him on the cc list this time...
> - Jim

I talked to Keith about this at OLS and we agreed that a coarse
counter (probably incremented along with jiffies) accessible via
a vsyscall would be enough. I'm looking into this in the next days.

tglx


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