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

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2004-06-27 at 01:05, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 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.

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