Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:54:38 +0100 |
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On Sad, 2004-06-26 at 23:48, Linus Torvalds wrote: > "jiffies" is one of the few things that I accept as volatile, since it's > basically read-only and accessed directly and has no internal structure > (ie it's a single word).
For most uses jiffies should die. If drivers could not access jiffies except by a (possibly trivial) helper then it would be a huge step closer to being able to run embedded linux without a continually running timer.
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