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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

  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 [RFC][PATCH] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds 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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