process wakeups

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:39:41 -0700
Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat.com> wrote:

> > Applications that do this should do it at 
> > relatively low frequency, and where possible (ie, almost always)
> > use g_timeout_add_seconds or equivalent functionality.
> 
> I assume this refers to the same thing Arjan tried to do: group
> wakeups of multiple waiters together.  He can probably recall the
> details more easily than I can.


g_timeout_add_seconds() is what I did ;-)

it's not ideal (it doesn't allow for a range, and it only works for
glib based apps).. but it's the best we have for userspace so far.
we really ought to do a range based timeout (or a precision specifier)


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