From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Re: Nasty suprise with uptime
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:59:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011031115943.K16554@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110311902410.29481-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110311926360.29572-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110311926360.29572-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de>; from tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 07:35:47PM +0100
On Oct 31, 2001 19:35 +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot to set INITIAL_JIFFIES to zero before posting the patch.
Actually, it SHOULD stay non-zero to fix exactly those problems, otherwise
you need to wait a long time to test it... And the Linux development
process is "developers can't possibly test everything, so users need to
do testing as well.
> Testing with high INITIAL_JIFFIES values unfortunately still discloses
> instability after the wraparound even for an otherwise unpatched kernel.
Exactly my point. Leave it in.
> This of course needs to be
> #define INITIAL_JIFFIES 0
> for correct uptime display
Maybe for uptime display only, you could subtract INITIAL_JIFFIES from
jiffies, for printing, but leave the initial value as non-zero?
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-31 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-31 11:35 [Patch] Re: Nasty suprise with uptime Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 15:39 ` vda
2001-10-31 14:31 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-31 18:16 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 18:35 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 18:59 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2001-10-31 18:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 18:58 ` Gerhard Mack
2001-10-31 19:14 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-31 20:11 ` Gerhard Mack
2001-10-31 20:39 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-31 20:52 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 21:05 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 21:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 21:17 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-01 7:45 ` Ville Herva
2001-10-31 19:06 ` george anzinger
2001-10-31 22:54 ` george anzinger
2001-11-04 18:31 ` Ton Hospel
[not found] <01103121070200.01262@nemo>
2001-10-31 19:26 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 19:52 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-31 20:00 ` J Sloan
2001-10-31 20:20 ` Charles Cazabon
2001-10-31 20:33 ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-10-31 20:47 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 21:07 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 21:11 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-01 16:09 ` vda
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-31 22:11 Petr Vandrovec
2001-10-31 21:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 22:58 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 23:56 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-01 0:23 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-01 0:52 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-01 11:21 ` george anzinger
2001-11-01 11:40 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-02 0:28 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-02 1:23 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-02 9:10 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-11-02 17:18 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-02 18:48 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-01 16:35 ` vda
2001-11-01 15:34 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-01 17:02 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-11-01 18:03 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-01 18:34 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-11-02 14:46 ` vda
2001-11-01 17:29 ` george anzinger
2001-11-01 9:02 Petr Vandrovec
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