Re: [timer] max timeout

Andrzej Krzysztofowicz (ankry@pg.gda.pl)
Wed, 23 May 2001 16:58:15 +0200 (MET DST)

"sebastien person wrote:"
> Is it bad to do the following call ?
>
> mod_timer(&timer, jiffies+(0.1*HZ));

Yes, it is bad. Don't use floating point in the kernel if you don't need.

> that might fire the timer 1/10 second later.

HZ/10 is much better ...

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