From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:30:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49EF37FC.8020909@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49EE89EF.1000707@ti.com>
Jon Hunter wrote:
> So this
> assumes that long long will be a 64-bit type which I don't like.
> However, this would not cause any compilation issues even if long long
> turned out to be 32-bits or 128-bits (if this is even possible).
Isn't "long long" guaranteed to be 64-bit on all linux systems?
Unless the width is critical, I'd prefer to stay away from u64 until it
gets unified between architectures. I recently ran into a problem
printk-ing a "u64" value because it was a different type on ppc64 than
x86-64.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-22 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-20 21:16 Jon Hunter
2009-04-21 6:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-21 20:32 ` john stultz
2009-04-21 23:20 ` Jon Hunter
2009-04-22 0:02 ` john stultz
2009-05-07 14:52 ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-08 0:54 ` [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep formore " john stultz
2009-05-08 16:05 ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-09 0:51 ` [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep formorethan " john stultz
2009-05-12 23:35 ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-12 23:58 ` [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep formorethan2.15 seconds john stultz
2009-05-13 15:14 ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-13 16:41 ` John Stultz
2009-05-13 17:54 ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-13 19:21 ` John Stultz
2009-05-15 16:35 ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-15 18:55 ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-16 1:29 ` John Stultz
2009-05-16 1:18 ` John Stultz
2009-05-22 18:21 ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-22 19:23 ` john stultz
2009-05-22 19:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-26 15:12 ` Jon Hunter
2009-05-26 20:26 ` john stultz
2009-05-22 19:59 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-04-22 0:05 ` [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds john stultz
2009-04-22 3:07 ` Jon Hunter
2009-04-22 15:30 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2009-04-22 17:04 ` Jon Hunter
2009-04-22 18:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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