[PATCH 0/5] v2: Progress toward absolute time intervals

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Tue Jul 19 09:48:07 UTC 2016


Hello Pavel,

On 14/07/16 15:04, Pavel Pisa wrote:
> The overflow of 64-bit ticks and 34 bit for seconds packed timespec
> format is not probable but I would like to see support for infinite
> operation there even if it cost halving range of the most distant
> timeouts.

with the 34-bits for seconds, we have a year 2514 problem. The 64-bit 
ticks counter overflows with a 1ns tick interval in about 586 years. So, 
nothing to worry about from my point of view.

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