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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Claudio Scordino <cloud.of.andor@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: ktimer not firing ?
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:04:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1137485084.17609.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601160945.47973.cloud.of.andor@gmail.com>

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 09:45 -0500, Claudio Scordino wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I know that ktimer is not yet part of the main tree of the Linux
> kernel...

And will never be. ktimers have been superseeded by hrtimers. The base
patch is merged into Linus tree and the high resolution patch can be
found here:

http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.15/

> However, the timer never fires. I checked the return value of the start and 
> it's correct (0 = success). Any idea of why the timer does not fire ?

Have you checked the expiry value after you called (re)start? It might
be far in the future.

	tglx



      reply	other threads:[~2006-01-17  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-17 15:39 A problem with ktimer Claudio Scordino
2005-11-17 17:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-16 14:45   ` ktimer not firing ? Claudio Scordino
2006-01-17  8:04     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]

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