On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 15:13 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > So you're not guaranteed that 10*HZ is 10 seconds. 10*USER_HZ, sure. > But not HZ. You're confused. 10*HZ jiffies is always 10 seconds. Hertz means per-second. We take CONFIG_HZ ticks per second, so waiting HZ jiffies makes us wait 1 second. USER_HZ is archaic and only used to stabilize user-interfaces that for some daft reason depended on HZ. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
