From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Frank v Waveren <fvw@var.cx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:44:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157222679.29250.386.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060902110445.GC3335@var.cx>
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 13:04 +0200, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> Here's a different patch, which should actually sleep for the
> specified amount of time up to 2^64 seconds with a loop around the
> sleeps and a tally of how long is left to sleep. It does mean we wake
> up once every 300 years on long sleeps, but that shouldn't cause any
> huge performance problems.
Which non academic problem is solved by this patch ?
tglx
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VGER BF report: U 0.491521
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-02 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-30 8:44 Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-30 21:44 ` Frank v Waveren
2006-08-30 22:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-30 22:08 ` Frank v Waveren
2006-08-30 22:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-30 22:26 ` Frank v Waveren
2006-09-01 3:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-01 8:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-01 9:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-01 9:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-02 3:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-02 3:32 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-02 8:08 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-02 18:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-02 19:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-02 19:43 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-02 19:32 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-02 11:04 ` Frank v Waveren
2006-09-02 18:44 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2006-09-03 3:13 ` Frank v Waveren
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