http://lwn.net/Articles/22808/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Driver porting: Timekeeping changes". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/23985/rss 2003-02-27T19:59:23+00:00 cpeterso <br>Someone posted a patch on LKML a few years ago and again recently, that started jiffies at -5 minutes instead of 0. That is, the patch would force a jiffy wraparound 5 minutes after boot, every time for all systems. Kernel and driver wraparound bugs would have to be fixed.<p>Does anyone know if there are plans to merge this in Linux 2.5?<br> http://lwn.net/Articles/23889/rss 2003-02-27T09:13:59+00:00 ekj <i>With 64 bits to work with, jiffies_64 will not wrap around in a time frame that need concern most of us - at least until some future kernel starts using a gigahertz internal clock.</i><p> Actually, even with a Ghz internal clock a 64-bit counter will still need about 600 years before it ticks over. Even with a 100Ghz internal clock we will experience wrap-around only once every 6 years. Few systems stay up that long.<p>