Re: Make condition variables take absolute wakeup time

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
> > Separate thing, but while changing this.. Could hardclock_ticks be made
> > unsigned? I would say uint32_t. Perhaps same for other *hz counters.
> 
> i'm not sure if unsigned is better or not because calculations on
> hardclock_ticks almost always need to prepare for wrapping anyway.

Almost, but not always; code may be tolerant to non-accurate calculations,
unsigned is shifting-friendly and logically correct (we do not want to have
negative ticks, do we?).

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