内核中的jiffies变量

关于内核中的jiffies变量，可通过下图解释。

在内核中很多函数的参数都是都是以jiffies为单位的，如定时器中mod_timer(&timer, jiffies + 2*HZ);

jiffies代表当前发生中断的次数，2*Hz代表发生了发生了2*Hz次中断，那jiffies+2Hz就是未来时间点的中断次数，转换成时间就是2s后的时间点。

还有很多表示时间的用jiffies为单位的函数,如

 

/**
 * mod_timer - modify a timer's timeout
 * @timer: the timer to be modified
 * @expires: new timeout in jiffies
 *
 * mod_timer() is a more efficient way to update the expire field of an
 * active timer (if the timer is inactive it will be activated)
 *
 * mod_timer(timer, expires) is equivalent to:
 *
 *     del_timer(timer); timer->expires = expires; add_timer(timer);
 *
 * Note that if there are multiple unserialized concurrent users of the
 * same timer, then mod_timer() is the only safe way to modify the timeout,
 * since add_timer() cannot modify an already running timer.
 *
 * The function returns whether it has modified a pending timer or not.
 * (ie. mod_timer() of an inactive timer returns 0, mod_timer() of an
 * active timer returns 1.)
 */
int mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires)
{
	expires = apply_slack(timer, expires);

	/*
	 * This is a common optimization triggered by the
	 * networking code - if the timer is re-modified
	 * to be the same thing then just return:
	 */
	if (timer_pending(timer) && timer->expires == expires)
		return 1;

	return __mod_timer(timer, expires, false, TIMER_NOT_PINNED);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mod_timer);

 

/**
 * wait_event_interruptible_timeout - sleep until a condition gets true or a timeout elapses
 * @wq: the waitqueue to wait on
 * @condition: a C expression for the event to wait for
 * @timeout: timeout, in jiffies
 *
 * The process is put to sleep (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) until the
 * @condition evaluates to true or a signal is received.
 * The @condition is checked each time the waitqueue @wq is woken up.
 *
 * wake_up() has to be called after changing any variable that could
 * change the result of the wait condition.
 *
 * Returns:
 * 0 if the @timeout elapsed, -%ERESTARTSYS if it was interrupted by
 * a signal, or the remaining jiffies (at least 1) if the @condition
 * evaluated to %true before the @timeout elapsed.
 */
#define wait_event_interruptible_timeout(wq, condition, timeout)	\
({									\
	long __ret = timeout;						\
	if (!___wait_cond_timeout(condition))				\
		__ret = __wait_event_interruptible_timeout(wq,		\
						condition, timeout);	\
	__ret;								\
})

 

/**
 * schedule_delayed_work - put work task in global workqueue after delay
 * @dwork: job to be done
 * @delay: number of jiffies to wait or 0 for immediate execution
 *
 * After waiting for a given time this puts a job in the kernel-global
 * workqueue.
 */
static inline bool schedule_delayed_work(struct delayed_work *dwork,unsigned long delay)

当然，也有相应的函数将我们常用的时间如ms转化成jiffies的，如msecs_to_jiffies

unsigned long msecs_to_jiffies(const unsigned int m)
{
	/*
	 * Negative value, means infinite timeout:
	 */
	if ((int)m < 0)
		return MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET;

#if HZ <= MSEC_PER_SEC && !(MSEC_PER_SEC % HZ)
	/*
	 * HZ is equal to or smaller than 1000, and 1000 is a nice
	 * round multiple of HZ, divide with the factor between them,
	 * but round upwards:
	 */
	return (m + (MSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) - 1) / (MSEC_PER_SEC / HZ);
#elif HZ > MSEC_PER_SEC && !(HZ % MSEC_PER_SEC)
	/*
	 * HZ is larger than 1000, and HZ is a nice round multiple of
	 * 1000 - simply multiply with the factor between them.
	 *
	 * But first make sure the multiplication result cannot
	 * overflow:
	 */
	if (m > jiffies_to_msecs(MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET))
		return MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET;

	return m * (HZ / MSEC_PER_SEC);
#else
	/*
	 * Generic case - multiply, round and divide. But first
	 * check that if we are doing a net multiplication, that
	 * we wouldn't overflow:
	 */
	if (HZ > MSEC_PER_SEC && m > jiffies_to_msecs(MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET))
		return MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET;

	return (MSEC_TO_HZ_MUL32 * m + MSEC_TO_HZ_ADJ32)
		>> MSEC_TO_HZ_SHR32;
#endif
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(msecs_to_jiffies);