Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 01:42:34 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> Jiffy Handling
> Many drivers still do not handle jiffy overflows nicely

Alan, should we consider this really a bug? I think that to only _clean_
way to fix this problem would be to use a long long C type for jiffies
(decreasing performance). But decreasing performance is needed also to
catch the overflow...

Andrea Arcangeli

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