Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:44:56 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Importing 'mstohz' from NetBSD. Message-ID: <20030714224456.GC23148@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030715072847.S9776@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20030714190514.GA3270@genius.tao.org.uk> <20030715072847.S9776@gamplex.bde.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:04:00AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > Starting from scratch, I would use common units much smaller than a > 1/hz tick or a millisecond for most times in the kernel. Old interfaces > like timeout() still get some benefits on some machines by using only > 32-bit counters, but these benefits will become negative when 32-bit > machine go away. > Thanks for your insight Bruce. I'll define it locally to the usb stack then. Cheers, Joe -- Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. ================= [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAj8TMmcACgkQXVIcjOaxUBYRqQCgtJ4oCf+zdS5IZn1F4DzS44Gk RWMAnjFkj7ax67wKnUvtFCjbwyTOCBMQ =BoUB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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