>the meaning of special timeout values can be preserved if we change the
>meaning of p->timeout to delta, instead of absolute values. (a name change
>is wise to help conversion)
I think that using a bitwise flag (use_timeout) could eventually also
improve performance because when the timeout expire we don' t need to set
to 0 a 64 bit memory area on 64bit arch. I am not 100% sure though ;-).
Andrea Arcangeli
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