From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 21:43:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC4816A425; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:42:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from blake.polstra.com (blake.polstra.com [64.81.189.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8117743D5F; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:42:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from strings.polstra.com (strings.polstra.com [64.81.189.67]) by blake.polstra.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jATLgvtW051087 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:42:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@strings.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by strings.polstra.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id jATLguVb055770; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:42:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.5 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5744.1133203908@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:42:56 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys time.h src/sys/kern kern_time.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:43:00 -0000 On 28-Nov-2005 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > I've looked a lot at this in the ISC eventlib (bind8) but there is > no way to save one timestamp per iteration without getting creeping > imprecision in the timer controlled events. Would it help if we had something like select/poll that took an absolute time (a deadline) instead of a timeout -- as is done by pthread_cond_timedwait? John