[stgt] [PATCH] new timer-based work scheduling

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:55:18 +0200
Alexander Nezhinsky <alexandern at Voltaire.COM> wrote:

> > If you don't care about old kernels much, I like to have the timerfd
> > and old jiffies code. If you care, I add the timerfd code and yours.
> 
> I do care for old kernels, and don't like combining timerfd and jiffies.
> So please add timerfd / timer signal combination. Whether to retain 
> gettimeofday or not, is up to you, i'm ok with both.

I don't want to use gettimeofday for timerfd code.

You really need several msecs accuracy? Even if add_work() argument is
second accuracy.


> >  	sched_remains = tgt_exec_scheduled();
> > -	timeout = sched_remains ? 0 : TGTD_TICK_PERIOD * 1000;
> > +	timeout = sched_remains ? 0 : -1;
> >  
> >  	nevent = epoll_wait(ep_fd, events, ARRAY_SIZE(events), timeout);
> 
> This is, of course, right. 

Please send an updated patch.
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