On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Carsten Otto wrote:
> "mod_timer(&adapter->watchdog_timer, jiffies + 2* HZ);"
> "mod_timer(&adapter->watchdog_timer, HZ);"
After HZ jiffies have passed you're adding a timer to trigger in the past.
> Now my questions:
> 1) Is my implementation right? It works...
That is often the case with lots of software, it may be wrong but by
$DEITY's gracious hand, still 'works'
> 2) Can I change that delay to 1 sec withhout "hurting someone"?
Dunno, try jiffies + HZ, they're just statistics
> 3) What are these jiffies? Mathematically they are about 20 :>
jiffies is the global variable which stores how many timer ticks have
occured since system startup.
> 4) There are other timers in the code, that use "jiffies + 2 * HZ" too.
> Should they be changed, too?
Nooo!! =)
> IMPORTANT:
> Please answer to c-otto@gmx.de, because I don't get the whole LKML.
Have fun,
Zwane
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