Re: [patch] change futex_wait() to hrtimers

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Mar 12 2007 - 10:32:37 EST



* Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> What we probably need in the long-term, and not just for high
> precision wakeups, is we need a way for waiters (either in the kernel
> or in userspace) to specify a desired precision in their timers. Is
> it, "wake me up in a second, exactly", or "wake me up in a second,
> plus or minus 10ms"? (or 50ms? or 100ms?).

such a facility exists already, see round_jiffies() and
round_jiffies_relative(). There's some short blurb about it at:

http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges#head-513ceda14f5d8cf5b8a7c81d7e3821543141ecb0

> This becomes especially important if we want the tickless code to
> really shine as far as power management is concerned. [...]

yes. That's why we also implemented /proc/timer_stat, and this was
measured and a few higher-frequency fuzzy waiters were converted to use
round_jiffies(). Some other waiters were fixed in user-space. It's all
dependent on actual measurements and circumstances.

Ingo
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