Kernel Jiffies

[athiraj]

Hi,

I would like to know the kernel jiffies. I'm facing problem when I've created timer with expiry value set from jiffies global variable.

Thanks in advance.

Athiraj J

[rulingminds]

Your question is like I would like to go to some where, how can i go?.

Explain what you would like to know about jiffies and what is your problem

[Rubberman]

I'd suggest that you look at kernel code that incorporates jiffies in their timeing. The i2c driver is a good example. It uses them extensively in its timers to determine when a line goes high or low.

[dassudheer]

Jiffies are not seconds. its count of number of ticks. jiffies /HZ will result in no of seconds. if you want to add 5 seconds for the current time then you have to add like this 5_seconds = jiffies + ( 5 * HZ ). which will be your 5 sec time out value.

[athiraj]

Hi,

Thanks for all your reply. I would like to understand how jiffies will work in linux and how can we incorporate for making timer expiry as 5 sec..

Regards,
Athiraj J

[athiraj]

Hi,

Thanks for your response. I'm not clear about one thing you have mentioned. for 5 sec delay, jiffies/HZ has to set. That is jiffies / 5 HZ have to give or what????

Regards,
Athiraj J

[dassudheer]

Hi Athiraj,

there is some thing called ticks in system.
and no of ticks per second is called HZ.

so jiffies will be in ticks and if you divide with HZ, you'll get in seconds.

for more details read Linux Device Drivers

Best Regards,
Sudheer