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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:24:08 +0100
From: Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>
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To: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Subject: Re: Is there a problem in timeval_to_jiffies?
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:56:24 -0700, Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> wrote:

Apologies for butting in.

> If you are rescheduling one-shot timers immediately
> after they fire, you should 'undershoot' on the time
> interval, to hit the tick boundary you want, based
> on the jiffy resolution of your platform.

Can I just do a ^^^^ here - this is what the original poster really
needs to know to solve the immediate problem of overshooting - then a
good book can help with the rest.

Jon.
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