Re: [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow

Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-02T18:40:43Z

On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 13:04 +0200, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> Here's a different patch, which should actually sleep for the
> specified amount of time up to 2^64 seconds with a loop around the
> sleeps and a tally of how long is left to sleep. It does mean we wake
> up once every 300 years on long sleeps, but that shouldn't cause any
> huge performance problems.

Which non academic problem is solved by this patch ?

tglx

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