Re: ktimer not firing ?

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Jan 17 2006 - 03:02:48 EST


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


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