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From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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Hi Alexander,

* Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Ed Schouten wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity, how does this work relate to things like having a
> > tickless kernel?
>=20
> It is almost mandatory prerequisite. We can't do any fancy timer stuff
> without unified timer API. Tsuyoshi Ozawa in his Dynamic Ticks work also
> got to the same conclusion, but he was much less aggressive in rewriting
> legacy code.

That's just what I wanted to hear. Thanks!

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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