Messages in this thread | | | From | Herbert Rosmanith <> | Subject | Re: Jiffies Wraparound (was Re: interrupt counts) | Date | Thu, 22 Aug 1996 01:56:32 +0200 (MET DST) |
| |
to me, a solution to the jiffie wraparound could be either a 64 bit absolute counter or a 32 bit delta. programms would then not use the variable "jiffies", but a routine "get_delta_jiffie()" which hides the counter internally and resets it to 0 very time it is called. of course, this would require changed all over the place, but installing a 64 bit counter would also ...
| |