From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Rompf Subject: Re: [NET] linkwatch: Handle jiffies wrap-around Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 18:51:49 +0200 Message-ID: <200605091851.49775.stefan@loplof.de> References: <200605071213.56877.stefan@loplof.de> <200605082028.57328.stefan@loplof.de> <20060509112626.GA29361@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from nattrymon.rzone.de ([81.169.145.178]:60870 "EHLO nattrymon.rzone.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750723AbWEIQva (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 12:51:30 -0400 To: Herbert Xu In-Reply-To: <20060509112626.GA29361@gondor.apana.org.au> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 Acked-by: Stefan Rompf