Re: [PATCH 0/3] fixes for overflow in poll(), epoll(), and msec_to_jiffies()

[Nishanth Aravamudan]

On 24.09.2005 [21:38:39 +0200], Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After the discussion around epoll() timeout, I noticed that the functions used
> to detect the timeout could themselves overflow for some values of HZ.
> 
> So I decided to fix them by defining a macro which represents the maximal
> acceptable argument which is guaranteed not to overflow. As an added bonus,
> those functions can now be used in poll() and ep_poll() and remove the divide
> if HZ == 1000, or replace it with a shift if (1000 % HZ) or (HZ % 1000) is a
> power of two.
> 
> Patches against 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 sent as replies to this mail.

These look really good, Willy. Thanks for the fixes!

-Nish
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