detail below.
Special attention has been given to the rate at which new frames become
-available. The jitter will be around 1 jiffie (that depends on the HZ
+available. The jitter will be around 1 jiffy (that depends on the HZ
configuration of your kernel, so usually 1/100, 1/250 or 1/1000 of a second),
but the long-term behavior is exactly following the framerate. So a
framerate of 59.94 Hz is really different from 60 Hz. If the framerate
ATOMIC CONTEXT:
You must use the `*delay` family of functions. These
- functions use the jiffie estimation of clock speed
+ functions use the jiffy estimation of clock speed
and will busy wait for enough loop cycles to achieve
the desired delay:
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CFS usa una granularidad de nanosegundos y no depende de ningún
-jiffie o detalles como HZ. De este modo, el gestor de tareas CFS no tiene
+jiffy o detalles como HZ. De este modo, el gestor de tareas CFS no tiene
noción de "ventanas de tiempo" de la forma en que tenía el gestor de
tareas previo, y tampoco tiene heurísticos. Únicamente hay un parámetro
central ajustable (se ha de cambiar en CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG):
/*
* Even though the SPC takes max 3-5 ms to complete any OPP/COMMS
- * operation, the operation could start just before jiffie is about
+ * operation, the operation could start just before jiffy is about
* to be incremented. So setting timeout value of 20ms = 2jiffies@100Hz
*/
#define TIMEOUT_US 20000
* this stuff doesn't really belong here..
*/
-int ql_ticks; /* 200Hz ticks since last jiffie */
+int ql_ticks; /* 200Hz ticks since last jiffy */
static int sound_ticks;
#define SVOL 45
/*
* Need to give user space some time to set everything up,
- * so do it a jiffie or two later everywhere.
+ * so do it a jiffy or two later everywhere.
*/
schedule_timeout(2);
ipmi_ssif_unlock_cond(ssif_info, flags);
start_get(ssif_info);
} else {
- /* Wait a jiffie then request the next message */
+ /* Wait a jiffy then request the next message */
ssif_info->waiting_alert = true;
ssif_info->retries_left = SSIF_RECV_RETRIES;
if (!ssif_info->stopping)
if (dma_fence_wait_timeout(wt.f, false, 2) == -ETIME) {
if (timer_pending(&wt.timer)) {
- pr_notice("Timer did not fire within the jiffie!\n");
+ pr_notice("Timer did not fire within the jiffy!\n");
err = 0; /* not our fault! */
} else {
pr_err("Wait reported incomplete after timeout\n");
if (ret == -ETIME && !nsecs_to_jiffies(args->timeout_ns))
args->timeout_ns = 0;
- /* Asked to wait beyond the jiffie/scheduler precision? */
+ /* Asked to wait beyond the jiffy/scheduler precision? */
if (ret == -ETIME && args->timeout_ns)
ret = -EAGAIN;
}
return -EINVAL;
}
- /* Give the request a jiffie to complete after flushing the worker */
+ /* Give the request a jiffy to complete after flushing the worker */
if (i915_request_wait(rq, 0,
max(0l, (long)(timeout - jiffies)) + 1) < 0) {
pr_err("%s: hanging request %llx:%lld did not complete\n",
cpu_relax();
saved_timeout = engine->props.preempt_timeout_ms;
- engine->props.preempt_timeout_ms = 1; /* in ms, -> 1 jiffie */
+ engine->props.preempt_timeout_ms = 1; /* in ms, -> 1 jiffy */
i915_request_get(rq);
i915_request_add(rq);
* Paranoia to make sure the compiler computes the timeout before
* loading 'jiffies' as jiffies is volatile and may be updated in
* the background by a timer tick. All to reduce the complexity
- * of the addition and reduce the risk of losing a jiffie.
+ * of the addition and reduce the risk of losing a jiffy.
*/
barrier();
else
args->timeout_ns = 0;
- /* Asked to wait beyond the jiffie/scheduler precision? */
+ /* Asked to wait beyond the jiffy/scheduler precision? */
if (ret == -ETIME && args->timeout_ns)
ret = -EAGAIN;
* - has multiple clocks.
* - has no usable clock due to jitter or packet loss (VoIP).
* In this case the system's clock is used. The clock resolution depends on
- * the jiffie resolution.
+ * the jiffy resolution.
*
* If a member joins a conference:
*
return 0;
} else {
/* wait_event_timeout does not guarantee a delay of at
- * least one whole jiffie, so timeout must be no less
+ * least one whole jiffy, so timeout must be no less
* than two.
*/
timeout = max(usecs_to_jiffies(MVMDIO_SMI_TIMEOUT), 2);
* success the write is considered to be failed permanently and the
* iodone handler will take appropriate action.
*
- * For retry timeouts, we record the jiffie of the first failure. This
+ * For retry timeouts, we record the jiffy of the first failure. This
* means that we can change the retry timeout for buffers already under
* I/O and thus avoid getting stuck in a retry loop with a long timeout.
*
#define NSEC_CONVERSION ((unsigned long)((((u64)1 << NSEC_JIFFIE_SC) +\
TICK_NSEC -1) / (u64)TICK_NSEC))
/*
- * The maximum jiffie value is (MAX_INT >> 1). Here we translate that
+ * The maximum jiffy value is (MAX_INT >> 1). Here we translate that
* into seconds. The 64-bit case will overflow if we are not careful,
* so use the messy SH_DIV macro to do it. Still all constants.
*/
* @overflow_seen: Overflow warning flag (DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING)
*
* Note: For timespec(64) based interfaces wall_to_monotonic is what
- * we need to add to xtime (or xtime corrected for sub jiffie times)
+ * we need to add to xtime (or xtime corrected for sub jiffy times)
* to get to monotonic time. Monotonic is pegged at zero at system
* boot time, so wall_to_monotonic will be negative, however, we will
* ALWAYS keep the tv_nsec part positive so we can use the usual
* promised in the context of posix_timer_fn() never
* materialized, but someone should really work on it.
*
- * To prevent DOS fake @now to be 1 jiffie out which keeps
+ * To prevent DOS fake @now to be 1 jiffy out which keeps
* the overrun accounting correct but creates an
* inconsistency vs. timer_gettime(2).
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST
-/* Limit min_delta to a jiffie */
+/* Limit min_delta to a jiffy */
#define MIN_DELTA_LIMIT (NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ)
/**
/*
* CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES indicates that the system has no way to return
* granular time values. For relative timers we add hrtimer_resolution
- * (i.e. one jiffie) to prevent short timeouts.
+ * (i.e. one jiffy) to prevent short timeouts.
*/
timer->is_rel = mode & HRTIMER_MODE_REL;
if (timer->is_rel)
* change to the signal handling code.
*
* For now let timers with an interval less than a
- * jiffie expire every jiffie and recheck for a
+ * jiffy expire every jiffy and recheck for a
* valid signal handler.
*
* This avoids interrupt starvation in case of a
* very small interval, which would expire the
* timer immediately again.
*
- * Moving now ahead of time by one jiffie tricks
+ * Moving now ahead of time by one jiffy tricks
* hrtimer_forward() to expire the timer later,
* while it still maintains the overrun accuracy
* for the price of a slight inconsistency in the
rem = j % HZ;
/*
- * If the target jiffie is just after a whole second (which can happen
+ * If the target jiffy is just after a whole second (which can happen
* due to delays of the timer irq, long irq off times etc etc) then
* we should round down to the whole second, not up. Use 1/4th second
* as cutoff for this rounding as an extreme upper bound for this.
* bits are zero, we look at the next level as is. If not we
* need to advance it by one because that's going to be the
* next expiring bucket in that level. base->clk is the next
- * expiring jiffie. So in case of:
+ * expiring jiffy. So in case of:
*
* LVL5 LVL4 LVL3 LVL2 LVL1 LVL0
* 0 0 0 0 0 0
return basem;
/*
- * Round up to the next jiffie. High resolution timers are
+ * Round up to the next jiffy. High resolution timers are
* off, so the hrtimers are expired in the tick and we need to
* make sure that this tick really expires the timer to avoid
* a ping pong of the nohz stop code.
base_global, &tevt);
/*
- * If the next event is only one jiffie ahead there is no need to call
+ * If the next event is only one jiffy ahead there is no need to call
* timer migration hierarchy related functions. The value for the next
* global timer in @tevt struct equals then KTIME_MAX. This is also
* true, when the timer base is idle.
* updated. When this update is missed, this isn't a
* problem, as an IPI is executed nevertheless when the CPU
* was idle before. When the CPU wasn't idle but the update
- * is missed, then the timer would expire one jiffie late -
+ * is missed, then the timer would expire one jiffy late -
* bad luck.
*
* Those unlikely corner cases where the worst outcome is only a
- * one jiffie delay or a superfluous raise of the softirq are
+ * one jiffy delay or a superfluous raise of the softirq are
* not that expensive as doing the check always while holding
* the lock.
*
using "boot_delay=N".
It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset
- the "loops per jiffie" value.
+ the "loops per jiffy" value.
See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your
system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N".
NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems.
/** @lock: lock to protect the list of fragments */
spinlock_t lock;
- /** @timestamp: time (jiffie) of last received fragment */
+ /** @timestamp: time (jiffy) of last received fragment */
unsigned long timestamp;
/** @seqno: sequence number of the fragments in the list */