Bug 10671 – Request to include the 64bit jiffies backport in Gentoo 1.4

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description faz 2002-11-13 03:40:18 UTC]

Hi,   
   
I'd like to request the inclusion of the 64bit jiffies backup in the gentoo kernel of 1.4.   
The HZ patch went in, causing the system time to rollover every  49 days with  
uncertain effect on the system stability. Inclusion of the 64 bit jiffies backport will  
solve this. Please refer  to this forum discussion:  
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=19334

[Comment 1 faz 2002-11-13 03:42:19 UTC]

Oops, it's "backport", not "backup" 

[Comment 2 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2002-11-16 12:45:30 UTC]

hmm... somewhat doubtful, but I'll check into it before the next gentoo-sources.
 current gentoo-sources it is recommended to use 100 jiffies any way because of
clock issues, not until the next one will the proper patch from RML be in.

[Comment 3 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) 2003-03-12 16:21:48 UTC]

the patch from here will be in the next testing sources.

http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/2.4/jiffies64-20.patch.gz