On Thu, Oct 30 2008, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:49:07 +0100 > Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > What > > > > likely can happen is that we may call mod_timer with jiffies that is > > > > older than current which would call the timer immediately... > > > > > > Yeah, I think that the timer is called immediately here. It's > > > unnecessary. > > > > Hmm, just checked the code, and indeed it does. Have the timers always > > behaved like that? > > I guess so because it's unrealistic that the caller of mod_time makes > sure that expires is future time, in particular if the caller wants > short timeout? It's all a little confusing, I think. When do you stop considering it a little in the past and long into the future? -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
