Re: Is there a problem in timeval_to_jiffies?

[Jon Masters]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:56:24 -0700, Tim Bird <tim.bird@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Apologies for butting in.

> If you are rescheduling one-shot timers immediately
> after they fire, you should 'undershoot' on the time
> interval, to hit the tick boundary you want, based
> on the jiffy resolution of your platform.

Can I just do a ^^^^ here - this is what the original poster really
needs to know to solve the immediate problem of overshooting - then a
good book can help with the rest.

Jon.
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