HashedWheelTimer and changing system time

["이희승 (Trustin Lee)"]

Here's the JIRA issue.  Let's follow-up there:

    https://jira.jboss.org/browse/NETTY-334

On 06/29/2010 07:06 PM, "이희승 (Trustin Lee)" wrote:
> Thanks guys for a nice discussion and sorry for joining pretty late. :)
> 
> Perhaps we could refactor HashedWheelTimer to use time differences (i.e.
> delay) instead of deadline so that monotonic clock source is not
> mandatory at all?  If I remember correctly, the reason why deadline is
> being used is to work around the race condition that leads the premature
> expiration of some timeouts.  To make proper changes, we need a very
> solid regression test that confirms the new implementation is ready for
> prime time.
> 
> Trustin

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