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I just used a simple example to<br />> illustrate my POV.<br />> <br />> <br />>>The rationale for example talks about "a periodic timer with an absolute <br />>>_initial_ expiration time", so I could also construct a valid example with <br />>>this expectation. The more I read the spec the more I think the current <br />>>behaviour is not correct, e.g. that ABS_TIME is only relevant for <br />>>it_value.<br />>>So I'm interested in specific interpretations of the spec which support <br />>>the current behaviour.<br /><br />My $0.02 worth: It is clear (from the standard) that the initial time <br />is to be ABS_TIME. It is also clear that the interval is to be added <br />to that time. IMHO then, the result should have the same property, <br />i.e. ABS_TIME. Sort of like adding an offset to a relative address. <br />The result is still relative.<br />> <br />> <br />> Unfortunately you find just the spec all over the place. I fear we have<br />> to find and agree on an interpretation ourself.<br />> <br />> I agree, that the restriction to the initial it_value is definitely<br />> something you can read out of the spec. But it does not make a lot of<br />> sense for me. Also the restriction to TIMER_ABSTIME is somehow strange<br />> as it converts an CLOCK_REALTIME timer to a CLOCK_MONOTONIC timer. I<br />> never understood the rationale behind that.<br /><br />I don't think it really does that. The TIMER_ABSTIME flag just says <br />that the time requested is to be taken as "clock" time (which ever <br />clock) AND that this is to be the expire time regardless of clock <br />setting. We, in an attempt to simplify the lists, convert the expire <br />time into some common time notation (in most cases we convert relative <br />times to absolute times) but this introduces problems because the <br />caller has _asked_ for a relative or absolute time and not the other. <br /> If the clock can not be set this is not a problem. If it can, well, <br />we need to keep track of what the caller wanted, absolute or relative.<br /><br />It might help others to understand this if you were to remove the <br />clock names from your queues and instead call them "absolute_real" and <br />"up_time". Then it would be more clear, I think, that we are mapping <br />user requests onto these queues based on the desired functionality <br />without a predilection to put a timer on a given queue just because a <br />particular clock was requested. At this point it becomes clear, for <br />example, that a TIMER_ABSTIME request on the real clock is the _only_ <br />request that should be mapped to the "absolute_real" list.<br />> <br />~<br />-- <br />George Anzinger george@mvista.com<br />HRT (High-res-timers): <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/</a><br />-<br />To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in<br />the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org<br />More majordomo info at <a href="http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html">http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html</a><br />Please read the FAQ at <a href="http://www.tux.org/lkml/">http://www.tux.org/lkml/</a><br /><br /></pre></td><td width="32" rowspan="2" class="c" valign="top"><img src="/images/icornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom"> 聽 </td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerl.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td><td class="c">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="/" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" colspan="2"> 聽 </td><td class="lm">Last update: 2005-12-13 02:29 聽聽 [from the cache]<br />漏2003-2020 <a href="http://blog.jasper.es/"><span itemprop="editor">Jasper Spaans</span></a>|hosted at <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9a8e99d24cf9">Digital Ocean</a> and my Meterkast|<a href="http://blog.jasper.es/categories.html#lkml-ref">Read the blog</a></td><td>聽</td></tr></table><script language="javascript" src="/js/styleswitcher.js" type="text/javascript"></script></body></html>