Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:44:39 +0200 |
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On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 13:04 +0200, Frank v Waveren wrote: > Here's a different patch, which should actually sleep for the > specified amount of time up to 2^64 seconds with a loop around the > sleeps and a tally of how long is left to sleep. It does mean we wake > up once every 300 years on long sleeps, but that shouldn't cause any > huge performance problems.
Which non academic problem is solved by this patch ?
tglx
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