Re: [PATCH 00/15] cleanups and optimizations

[Eliezer Tamir]

On 17/12/2013 17:13, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 04:03:58PM +0200, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure that subtracting the spin time is the optimal thing to do.
>>
>> The busy poll time is supposed to be limited to something less than 1ms.
>> (I'm using 50us in most of my tests)
>> This is typically orders of magnitude smaller than the poll timeout.
>> Would it make more sense to just enforce a limit on poll time?
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> I've no idea what people normally expect of select/poll wakeup
> granularity but typically we already have 50us of timer slack, although
> RT tasks go without this.

If RT tasks can't accept 50us of fuzziness, then the
path of least astonishment would be to have fully accurate
timekeeping, as you suggested. OK, so that's the plan.

Thanks,
Eliezer

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