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To: "Attilio Rao" <attilio@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: New "timeout" api, to replace callout 
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In message <3bbf2fe10712012231p2945111cma2faed2299167d3a@mail.gmail.com>, "Atti
lio Rao" writes:
>2007/12/1, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>:
>>
>> Here is my proposed new timeout API for 8.x.
>>
>> The primary objective is to make it possible to have multiple timeout
>> "providers" of possibly different kind, so that we can have per-cpu
>> or per-net-stack timeout handing.
>
>I have a question so.

I have no idea what the answer to your question is, I'm focusing on
providing the ability, how we subsequently decide to use it is up
to others.

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