From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: ptb@inv.it.uc3m.es
Cc: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"linux kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: time_is_after_jiffies misnomer
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:18:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeabawccup.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812161517.mBGFHUE07109@inv.it.uc3m.es> (Peter T. Breuer's message of "Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:17:30 +0100 (MET)")
"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@inv.it.uc3m.es> writes:
> Look at the two:
>
> the current time is later than foo jiffies
> | | | `/.
> time_is_after_jiffies(foo)
It's not "foo jiffies", it's time "foo" vs time "jiffies" (where jiffies
is the well known global variable).
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-16 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-16 11:31 time_is_after_jiffies misnomer Peter T. Breuer
2008-12-16 14:46 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-12-16 15:17 ` Peter T. Breuer
2008-12-16 16:18 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2008-12-16 16:32 ` Peter T. Breuer
2008-12-16 19:29 ` Chris Friesen
2008-12-16 20:33 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-12-18 7:38 ` Pavel Machek
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2008-12-16 16:04 Peter T. Breuer
2008-12-16 16:13 ` Pekka Enberg
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