From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why do we still have 32 bit counters? Interrupt counters overflow within 50 days
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 12:33:04 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1410031231420.4383@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1410030435260.8324@gentwo.org>
On Fri, 3 Oct 2014, Christoph Lameter wrote:
The answer is simply that nobody cared so far.
> Is this the way its intended or should the counters be expanded to 64 bit?
There is no reason why we cannot or should not expand them.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-03 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-03 9:45 Why do we still have 32 bit counters? Interrupt counters overflow within 50 days Christoph Lameter
2014-10-03 10:33 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2014-10-03 11:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-03 12:03 ` Richard Cochran
2014-10-03 12:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-03 12:17 ` Richard Cochran
2014-10-03 14:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-05 21:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-05 23:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-05 23:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-06 8:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-06 10:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-06 13:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-06 15:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-06 15:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-06 19:34 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-06 15:31 ` David Lang
2014-10-06 19:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-05 23:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-06 7:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-06 10:49 ` David Lang
2014-10-06 12:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-03 12:15 ` Paul Bolle
2014-10-03 12:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-04 10:26 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
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