From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Mark Frazer <mark@somanetworks.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [timer] max timeout
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 17:45:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200105252145.f4PLjJaC004054@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 May 2001 17:26:28 -0400." <20010525172628.P32217@somanetworks.com>
Mark Frazer <mark@somanetworks.com> said:
[...]
> The output of `find . -type f | xargs grep 'jiffies +'` would suggest
> that there are a few latent bugs as jiffies grows to values near the
> top of its range. I guess this hasn't turned up as 0x7fffffff / (100 *
> 3600 * 24) = 248.55.
There were patches floating around a _long_ time ago (2.1-ish AFAIR) that
allowed you to start your system at any jiffy. Many people checked out what
happens on jiffie rollover then. Might be a good idea to do that again...
--
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-23 14:28 sebastien person
2001-05-23 14:38 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-23 14:58 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-05-25 8:24 ` sebastien person
2001-05-25 20:58 ` george anzinger
2001-05-25 21:26 ` Mark Frazer
2001-05-25 21:45 ` Horst von Brand [this message]
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