lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1996]   [Aug]   [21]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: Jiffies Wraparound (was Re: interrupt counts)
Date

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 ...


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:38    [W:0.399 / U:0.124 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site