Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> We no longer use jiffies (the variable) as the basis for determining > what "time" a timer should expire or when it should be added. Instead, > we use a new function, do_monotonic_clock(), which is simply a wrapper > for getnstimeofday(). And suddenly a simple 32bit integer becomes a complex 64bit integer, which requires hardware access to read a timer and additional conversion into ns. Why is suddenly everyone so obsessed with molesting something simple and cute as jiffies? bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/