Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > I'm all for that, except last I counted there are about 5000 users of
> > jiffies.  What do you suggest as a replacement API?
> 
> For a lot of them they shouldn't be polling. For those that do in
> most cases something like
> 
> 	struct timeout_timer t;
> 
> 	timeout_set(t, 5 * HZ)
> 	timeout_cancel(t)
> 
> 	if(timeout_expired(t))
> 
> Where timeout_timer is effectively an existing timer of add_timer
> style and a single variable. The code to build that kind of timer
> on top of add_timer is trivial.

Plus some get_jiffies api for stuff like printk ratelimit would be needed,
right?
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