Re: Why do we still have 32 bit counters? Interrupt counters overflow within 50 days

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Oct 03 2014 - 06:33:13 EST


On Fri, 3 Oct 2014, Christoph Lameter wrote:

The answer is simply that nobody cared so far.

> Is this the way its intended or should the counters be expanded to 64 bit?

There is no reason why we cannot or should not expand them.

Thanks,

tglx
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