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@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ several reasons why such integration is hard/impossible:
The primary users of precision timers are user-space applications that
utilize nanosleep, posix-timers and itimer interfaces. Also, in-kernel
users like drivers and subsystems which require precise timed events
-(e.g. multimedia) can benefit from the availability of a seperate
+(e.g. multimedia) can benefit from the availability of a separate
high-resolution timer subsystem as well.
While this subsystem does not offer high-resolution clock sources just
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ The increasing demand for realtime and multimedia applications along
with other potential users for precise timers gives another reason to
separate the "timeout" and "precise timer" subsystems.
-Another potential benefit is that such a seperation allows even more
+Another potential benefit is that such a separation allows even more
special-purpose optimization of the existing timer wheel for the low
resolution and low precision use cases - once the precision-sensitive
APIs are separated from the timer wheel and are migrated over to
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ file systems. The rbtree is solely used for time sorted ordering, while
a separate list is used to give the expiry code fast access to the
queued timers, without having to walk the rbtree.
-(This seperate list is also useful for later when we'll introduce
-high-resolution clocks, where we need seperate pending and expired
+(This separate list is also useful for later when we'll introduce
+high-resolution clocks, where we need separate pending and expired
queues while keeping the time-order intact.)
Time-ordered enqueueing is not purely for the purposes of