On 01/01/20(Wed) 22:13, Scott Cheloha wrote:
> > On Dec 31, 2019, at 9:35 AM, Martin Pieuchot <m...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to stop converting the given timespec to ticks and instead use
> > nanoseconds. This is part of the ongoing effort to reduce the use of
> > `hz' through the kernel.
> >
> > Since I don't know C I'd appreciate any pointer about the checks that
> > should be added to TIMESPEC_TO_NSEC().
> >
> > Then the conversions to {t,rw}sleep_nsec(9) become trivial, diff below.
>
> We can't do this until timeouts have a tickless interface. Otherwise
> your timeouts will return early. That's why I was saving the sys/kern
> conversions until after resolving that issue.
I don't understand, can you elaborate?
