Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751302AbWAQIEW (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:04:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751306AbWAQIEW (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:04:22 -0500 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:49092 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751302AbWAQIEV (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:04:21 -0500 Subject: Re: ktimer not firing ? From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Claudio Scordino Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt , kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: <200601160945.47973.cloud.of.andor@gmail.com> References: <200511171639.27565.cloud.of.andor@gmail.com> <1132248488.10522.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200601160945.47973.cloud.of.andor@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:04:44 +0100 Message-Id: <1137485084.17609.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 848 Lines: 26 On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 09:45 -0500, Claudio Scordino wrote: > Hi, > > I know that ktimer is not yet part of the main tree of the Linux > kernel... And will never be. ktimers have been superseeded by hrtimers. The base patch is merged into Linus tree and the high resolution patch can be found here: http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.15/ > However, the timer never fires. I checked the return value of the start and > it's correct (0 = success). Any idea of why the timer does not fire ? Have you checked the expiry value after you called (re)start? It might be far in the future. tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/