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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
	vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Re: Nasty suprise with uptime
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:59:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011031115943.K16554@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110311902410.29481-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110311926360.29572-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110311926360.29572-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de>; from tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 07:35:47PM +0100

On Oct 31, 2001  19:35 +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot to set INITIAL_JIFFIES to zero before posting the patch.

Actually, it SHOULD stay non-zero to fix exactly those problems, otherwise
you need to wait a long time to test it...  And the Linux development
process is "developers can't possibly test everything, so users need to
do testing as well.

> Testing with high INITIAL_JIFFIES values unfortunately still discloses
> instability after the wraparound even for an otherwise unpatched kernel.

Exactly my point.  Leave it in.

> This of course needs to be
>    #define INITIAL_JIFFIES 0
> for correct uptime display

Maybe for uptime display only, you could subtract INITIAL_JIFFIES from
jiffies, for printing, but leave the initial value as non-zero?

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-31 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-31 11:35 [Patch] Re: Nasty suprise with uptime Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 15:39 ` vda
2001-10-31 14:31   ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-31 18:16     ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 18:35       ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 18:59         ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2001-10-31 18:40       ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 18:58         ` Gerhard Mack
2001-10-31 19:14           ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-31 20:11             ` Gerhard Mack
2001-10-31 20:39               ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-31 20:52               ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 21:05                 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 21:39                   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 21:17                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-01  7:45                   ` Ville Herva
2001-10-31 19:06       ` george anzinger
2001-10-31 22:54       ` george anzinger
2001-11-04 18:31         ` Ton Hospel
     [not found] <01103121070200.01262@nemo>
2001-10-31 19:26 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 19:52   ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-31 20:00     ` J Sloan
2001-10-31 20:20     ` Charles Cazabon
2001-10-31 20:33       ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-10-31 20:47 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 21:07   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 21:11   ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-01 16:09   ` vda
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-31 22:11 Petr Vandrovec
2001-10-31 21:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 22:58 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 23:56   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-01  0:23     ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-01  0:52       ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-01 11:21         ` george anzinger
2001-11-01 11:40           ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-02  0:28             ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-02  1:23               ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-02  9:10                 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-11-02 17:18                 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-02 18:48                   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-01 16:35         ` vda
2001-11-01 15:34           ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-01 17:02             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-11-01 18:03               ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-01 18:34                 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-11-02 14:46                   ` vda
2001-11-01 17:29             ` george anzinger
2001-11-01  9:02 Petr Vandrovec

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