Messages in this thread |  | | From | mlord <> | Subject | Jiffies Wraparound (was Re: interrupt counts) | Date | Mon, 19 Aug 1996 21:57:35 -0400 |
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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?
The one that really worries me is having the "jiffies" wrap around, an event which will happen every 17 months or so on production systems.
A *lot* of the kernel will malfunction when that happens.
-ml
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