From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754681AbbAXTiF (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:38:05 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58401 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752845AbbAXTiD (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:38:03 -0500 Message-ID: <54C3F489.2040504@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:37:45 -0500 From: "Carlos O'Donell" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Church , Thomas Gleixner CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] posix-timers: Prevents overrun counter overflow References: <[PATCH 0/2] posix-timers: Prevents overrun counter overflow, adds DELAYTIMER_MAX> <1422121737-3686-1-git-send-email-dchurch@andplus.com> <1422121737-3686-2-git-send-email-dchurch@andplus.com> In-Reply-To: <1422121737-3686-2-git-send-email-dchurch@andplus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/24/2015 12:48 PM, Daniel Church wrote: > +#define DELAYTIMER_MAX_DEFAULT 1000000 Why did you chose 1 million? Have you reviewed what constant userspace, particularly glibc, is using? Cheers, Carlos.