Re: 2.6 jiffies

On Wed, 18 May 2005 20:12, linux wrote:
> Why jiffies start counting from a negative number and after 5minutes the
> counter gets positive????

It's an excellent way to test if jiffy wrap is handled well since it will 
happen in 5 minutes instead of 50 days.

Cheers,
Con

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