Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Performance of del_timer_sync

[Andrew Morton]

Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:11:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +int del_single_shot_timer(struct timer_struct *timer)
> > +{
> > +	if (del_timer(timer))
> > +		del_timer_sync(timer);
> > +}
> 
> it's probably better named del_timer_singleshot given the name we gave
> to the other timer functions.

Nah, that's ungrammatical.  del_timer_singleshot means "delete a timer in a
single-shot manner".

We have:

"add a timer"
"modify a timer"
"delete a timer"
"delete a timer synchronously"
"delete a single-shot timer"

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