Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 19 Aug 1996 09:41:49 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: interrupt counts |
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On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Jon Lewis wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, what's going to happen in about 2 months when my > irq 11 counter hits 4294967296? Will it happily wrap, or are things > likely to get upset?
It will happily wrap. The kernel doesn't actually _use_ the interrupt counts for anything, they are there only for statistics.
Linus
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