On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:39, Nagaprabhanjan Bellari
wrote:
> I am curious to know why jiffies is initialized with INITIAL_JIFFIES which
> is -300 * HZ? It is mentioned in the source that jiffies, when initialized
> with this value, will make it overflow in 5 minutes.
Just wanna add something an
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Nagaprabhanjan Bellari wrote:
> I am curious to know why jiffies is initialized with INITIAL_JIFFIES
> which is -300 * HZ? It is mentioned in the source that jiffies, when
> initialized with this value, will make it overflow in 5 minutes.
> Can somebody tell me how it helps
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 11:09 +0530, Nagaprabhanjan Bellari wrote:
> I am curious to know why jiffies is initialized with INITIAL_JIFFIES
> which is -300 * HZ? It is mentioned in the source that jiffies, when
> initialized with this value, will make it overflow in 5 minutes.
>
> Can somebody tell m
I am curious to know why jiffies is initialized with INITIAL_JIFFIES which
is -300 * HZ? It is mentioned in the source that jiffies, when initialized
with this value, will make it overflow in 5 minutes.
Can somebody tell me how it helps in dealing with jiffy overflow issues at a
later point in tim
