From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 11:02:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 11:02:06 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:11754 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 11:01:55 -0400 From: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz Message-Id: <200105231458.QAA22388@sunrise.pg.gda.pl> Subject: Re: [timer] max timeout To: sebastien.person@sycomore.fr (sebastien person) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:58:15 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (liste noyau linux) In-Reply-To: <20010523162801.38dabdff.sebastien.person@sycomore.fr> from "sebastien person" at May 23, 2001 04:28:01 PM Reply-To: ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "sebastien person wrote:" > Is it bad to do the following call ? > > mod_timer(&timer, jiffies+(0.1*HZ)); Yes, it is bad. Don't use floating point in the kernel if you don't need. > that might fire the timer 1/10 second later. HZ/10 is much better ... -- ======================================================================= Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz ankry@mif.pg.gda.pl phone (48)(58) 347 14 61 Faculty of Applied Phys. & Math., Technical University of Gdansk