Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:24:08 +0100 | From | Jon Masters <> | Subject | Re: Is there a problem in timeval_to_jiffies? |
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:56:24 -0700, Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> wrote:
Apologies for butting in.
> If you are rescheduling one-shot timers immediately > after they fire, you should 'undershoot' on the time > interval, to hit the tick boundary you want, based > on the jiffy resolution of your platform.
Can I just do a ^^^^ here - this is what the original poster really needs to know to solve the immediate problem of overshooting - then a good book can help with the rest.
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