>if someone is interested, I just prepared a small web page about firm >timers: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~luca/firm.html On this page, you can >find a small paper describing some experiments and a kernel patch >implementing firm timers.
fantastic work! this looks like the KURT patch done in a way that might be more acceptable to Linus, and even if not, at least its a patch for a relatively current kernel. where are you planning to to go with this? --p
