On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:45:16AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Dec 20,  4:58am, abuse@spamalicious.com ("Charles M. Hannum") wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: lib/28700: Re: lib/28700: pthread_cond_timedwait() hang with 
> 
> | This sort of problem has been discussed before, and your patch is *not* okay.
> | 
> | The problem is that there are many places that use TIMESPEC_TO_TIMEVAL(), and 
> | for some of them it is simply wrong (and might even cause minor malfunctions) 
> | to round up.  There needs to be both "round up" and "round down" behavior, 
> | used appropriately.
> 
> So the best thing would be to change the whole kernel to use timespec
> internally everywhere. I will work on that.

Or a 64bit microsecond counter?

	David

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