Re: something about jiffies wraparound overflow

[Ben Collins]

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 12:46 +0800, jeff shia wrote:
>   1.why the macros of time_after can solve the jiffies wraparound problem?

Basically it assumes that the two values you are comparing will never be
more than MAX_ULONG/2 apart. Which for jiffies means 270 some odd days
on 32-bit platforms.

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   Ben Collins <ben.collins@xxxxxxxxxx>
   Developer
   Ubuntu Linux

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