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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



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