From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 15:45:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5304137B401 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:45:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genius.tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A24E843FA3 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:45:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@genius.tao.org.uk) Received: by genius.tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 475514AA7; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:44:56 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:44:56 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Bruce Evans Message-ID: <20030714224456.GC23148@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20030714190514.GA3270@genius.tao.org.uk> <20030715072847.S9776@gamplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ctP54qlpMx3WjD+/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030715072847.S9776@gamplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Importing 'mstohz' from NetBSD. X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:45:10 -0000 --ctP54qlpMx3WjD+/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:04:00AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Josef Karthauser wrote: >=20 > 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. >=20 Thanks for your insight Bruce. I'll define it locally to the usb stack then. Cheers, Joe --=20 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/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D An eclectic mix of fact an= d theory. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --ctP54qlpMx3WjD+/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAj8TMmcACgkQXVIcjOaxUBYRqQCgtJ4oCf+zdS5IZn1F4DzS44Gk RWMAnjFkj7ax67wKnUvtFCjbwyTOCBMQ =BoUB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ctP54qlpMx3WjD+/--