From: "Joakim Tjernlund" <Joakim.Tjernlund@lumentis.se>
To: "Joakim Tjernlund" <Joakim.Tjernlund@lumentis.se>,
"Wojciech Kromer" <krom@dgt-lab.com.pl>,
"Linuxppc-Embedded (E-mail)"
<linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: kernel/timer.c
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:52:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002901c300f2$58776090$020120b0@jockeXP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 001901c300df$4a2bb030$020120b0@jockeXP
> > so, anyone knows what linus.t says about adding one jiffie to every
> > non-zero expire?
>
> I think this is a bug. It should be enough to round up to nearest jiffie.
> Ask on the linux kernel list.
>
> Jocke
Actually, I take that back. It's not a bug. schedule_timeout(x), x > 0 will wait
somewere between x-1 and x jiffies. Therefore one must add an extra
jiffie to make sure that you don't return too early.
Jocke
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-11 13:17 kernel/timer.c Wojciech Kromer
2003-04-11 14:38 ` kernel/timer.c Joakim Tjernlund
2003-04-12 7:07 ` kernel/timer.c Wojciech Kromer
2003-04-12 8:29 ` kernel/timer.c Joakim Tjernlund
2003-04-12 9:32 ` kernel/timer.c Wojciech Kromer
2003-04-12 10:35 ` kernel/timer.c Joakim Tjernlund
2003-04-12 12:52 ` Joakim Tjernlund [this message]
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2003-04-11 21:25 kernel/timer.c Darin.Johnson
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