Re: [UPDATE PATCH] push rounding up of relative request to schedule_timeout()

[Nish Aravamudan]

On 8/4/05, George Anzinger <george@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Uh... PLEASE tell me you are NOT changing timespec_to_jiffies() (and
> timeval_to_jiffies() to add 1.  This is NOT the right thing to do.  For
> repeating times (see setitimer code) we need the actual time as we KNOW
> where the jiffies edge is in the repeating case.  The +1 is needed ONLY
> for the initial time, not the repeating time.

Please read the patch. I didn't touch timespec_to_jiffies() or
timeval_to_jiffies(). Not sure why you think I did. I agree that we
only need the initial time, my patch is no good. But it is hard for
non-itimers, like schedule_timeout() callers, to provide an interface
that only adds 1 to the initial request, since the callers currently
pass in an absolute jiffies value.

Thanks,
Nish
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