On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 16:24 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Yeah, that should be easy enough so I'll try it that way since I presume
> it's nicer to power usage to use deferred timers if it's reasonably
> possible.
Btw, your current scheme also drifts. Since you do jiffes + 3*HZ you
period might actually be longer if the timer got delayed.
If you keep an external jiffies count like:
unsigned long period_jiffies = jiffies;
void my_timer_func()
{
unsigned long delta = jiffies - period_jiffies;
unsigned long periods = delta / 3*HZ;
age(periods);
period_jiffies += 3*HZ * periods;
mod_timer(&my_timer, period_jiffies);
}
it all works without drift (+- bugs of course).
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