From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: george@mvista.com
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
matthias@corelatus.se,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: patch to fix set_itimer() behaviour in boundary cases
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:49:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1106293769.4182.64.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41F03AD2.4010803@mvista.com>
> >
> > This one I meant to fix in the kernel fwiw; we can put that loop inside
> > the kernel easily I'm sure
>
> Yes, but it will increase the data size of the timer...
>
eh how?
the way I think it can be done is to just have multiple timers fire
until the total time is up. It's not a performance issue (a timer firing
every 24 days.. who cares, esp since such long delays are rare anyway)
after all...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-21 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-15 8:45 Matthias Lang
2005-01-15 9:30 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-15 9:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-15 9:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-15 10:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-15 19:55 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-01-15 20:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-15 23:25 ` Matthias Lang
2005-01-15 23:39 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-01-16 0:58 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-16 12:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-19 23:51 ` George Anzinger
2005-01-20 8:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-20 23:12 ` George Anzinger
2005-01-21 7:49 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-01-21 8:22 ` George Anzinger
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