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

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:

> The comment for schedule_timeout() claims:
> 
>  * Make the current task sleep until @timeout jiffies have
>  * elapsed.
> 
> Currently, it does not do so. I was simply trying to make the function
> do what it claims it does.

What makes you think the comment is correct? This comment was added at 
2.4.3, while schedule_timeout() has this behaviour since it was added at 
2.1.127.

> My point was that the +1 issues (potential
> infinite timeouts) are a problem with *jiffies* not milliseconds. And
> thus need to be pushed down to the jiffies layer. I think my explanation
> was pretty clear.

Not really, could you go into more details why it's "a problem with 
*jiffies* not milliseconds"?

bye, Roman
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