Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] clock_rtoffset: new syscall

[Thomas Gleixner]

Alexander,

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 16:02 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> > The completely untested patch below should solve the same problem in a
> > sane way. Restricted to timerfd, but that really should be sufficient.
> 
> > Subject: timerfd: Allow timers to be cancelled when clock was set
> > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:16:42 +0200
> 
> Seems to work fine for me here for the weird "cron timer" case, or the
> simple "desktop clock" use-case -- where we want to rely on the timer to
> let the process sleep as long as possible, but wake it up to recalculate
> the next wakeup in case anything has changed in the meantime.

is that sufficient to solve your problems as well?

Thanks,

	tglx
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