From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux <kernel@wired-net.gr>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6 jiffies
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:42:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cd57c900505180342281248f4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1116412348.6572.21.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On 5/18/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 13:28 +0300, linux wrote:
> > ok.i see what u mean.
> > But should this value on a stable version be 0 again???
>
> why?
> "the absolute value has no meaning" -> why would "0" be special ???
> Answer: It's not. And actually -5 minutes is more useful than 0 because
> it keeps helping finding bugs... why do you want it to start at 0 ?
>
The negative value doesn't hurt. It's unsigned. Maybe he was thinking
reading jiffies as the uptime directly.
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Coywolf Qi Hunt
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-18 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-13 10:44 [PATCH] namespace.c: fix bind mount from foreign namespace Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-13 16:49 ` Ram
2005-05-13 17:06 ` Al Viro
2005-05-13 17:17 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-13 17:25 ` Al Viro
2005-05-13 17:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-13 17:29 ` Ram
2005-05-13 18:40 ` Miklos Szeredi
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[not found] ` <1116013840.6248.429.camel@localhost>
2005-05-14 6:11 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-16 15:11 ` Ram
2005-05-16 8:44 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-16 8:59 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-16 11:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-05-16 13:23 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-16 11:14 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-05-17 3:50 ` Ram
2005-05-16 20:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-17 1:28 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-05-17 5:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
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[not found] ` <1116400118.24560.119.camel@localhost>
2005-05-18 9:51 ` [PATCH] fix race in mark_mounts_for_expiry() Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-18 10:12 ` 2.6 jiffies linux
2005-05-18 10:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-18 10:28 ` linux
2005-05-18 10:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-18 10:42 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt [this message]
2005-05-18 10:32 ` Con Kolivas
2005-05-18 10:32 ` [PATCH] fix race in mark_mounts_for_expiry() David Howells
2005-05-18 10:37 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-18 10:46 ` David Howells
2005-05-18 10:53 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-18 10:59 ` David Howells
2005-05-18 11:14 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-18 11:51 ` David Howells
2005-05-18 12:08 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-18 12:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-18 16:53 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-18 18:47 ` Ram
2005-05-18 19:19 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-18 20:35 ` Ram
2005-05-19 12:52 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-18 11:07 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-05-18 11:32 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-18 12:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-05-18 13:21 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-18 17:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-05-18 19:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-18 19:52 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-05-19 12:41 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-17 18:48 ` [PATCH] namespace.c: fix bind mount from foreign namespace Ram
2005-05-17 0:00 ` Jamie Lokier
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