Re: [patch 00/43] ktimer reworked

On Nov 30, 2005, at 22:32, Roman Zippel wrote:
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
but what we'd like to achieve as an end-result is the clear separation of 'timer' vs. 'timeout' APIs. Our proposed end result would be to have 'struct ktimer' for timers, and 'struct ktimeout' for timeouts. 

Sorry, but calling it "ktimeout" would be completely wrong.

"timeout" is a rather imprecise term, which can have different meanings depending on the context, e.g. any timer usually has a "timeout value", but what is meant here is a "timeout timer". So basically this is supposed to be about "timer" vs "timeout timer".
[snip lengthy discussion]

If I recall correctly, this whole naming mess has been discussed to death before, with the result that almost everybody but Roman thought the names were perfectly clear such that a timer is _expected_ to expire and a timeout is not, therefore timers should be optimized for add=>run=>expire and timeouts optimized for add=>run=>remove.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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