Re: [PATCH *] use 64 bit jiffies

Tim Schmielau
2003-02-04T12:55:37Z

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On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Jörn Engel wrote:

> On Tue, 4 February 2003 08:41:13 +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> >
> > Jiffy Wrap Bugs
> >
> > There is a better solution to ensure correct jiffy wrap handling in
> > *ALL* kernel code: make jiffy wrap in first five minutes of uptime.
> > Tim has a patch for such config option. This is almost right.
>
> This sounds very interesting. Is this patch availlable somewhere? If
> not, could you send a copy to me, Tim?

A patch for 2.4.20-pre7 (and maybe later) is at
http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/2.4/

I still need to forward port it to 2.5 (which should be easy).

Tim