Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:02:32 +0100 (CET) | From | Tim Schmielau <> | Subject | Re: do we still need the jiffies wraparound functions ? |
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On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, jeff shia wrote:
> Under the kernel 2.6.x,the jiffies is defined as u64.We cannot count > on it to overflow.
Actually, no. jiffies is still defined as unsigned long, which reduces overhead where 64 bit jiffies are not needed. Only jiffies_64 is an u64.
> Do we still need the functions to solve this problem?
Yes.
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