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Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:44:39 +0200 From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> To: Frank v Waveren <fvw@....cx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 13:04 +0200, Frank v Waveren wrote: > Here's a different patch, which should actually sleep for the > specified amount of time up to 2^64 seconds with a loop around the > sleeps and a tally of how long is left to sleep. It does mean we wake > up once every 300 years on long sleeps, but that shouldn't cause any > huge performance problems. Which non academic problem is solved by this patch ? tglx -- VGER BF report: U 0.491521 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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