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From: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NET] linkwatch: Handle jiffies wrap-around
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 18:51:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605091851.49775.stefan@loplof.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060509112626.GA29361@gondor.apana.org.au>

Am Dienstag 09 Mai 2006 13:26 schrieb Herbert Xu:

> The test used in the linkwatch does not handle wrap-arounds correctly.
> Since the intention of the code is to eliminate bursts of messages we
> can afford to delay things up to a second.

looks good, the code generates only up to 1 second delay for one second every 
49 days, avoiding 64bit operations. David, please prefer this patch over mine.

> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Acked-by: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-09 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-07 10:13 [PATCH] core: linkwatch should use jiffies64 Stefan Rompf
2006-05-08  6:07 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-08 18:28   ` Stefan Rompf
2006-05-09 11:26     ` [NET] linkwatch: Handle jiffies wrap-around Herbert Xu
2006-05-09 16:51       ` Stefan Rompf [this message]
2006-05-09 22:28         ` David S. Miller

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