On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:19:51PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> When the conversion factor between jiffies and milli- or microseconds
> is not a single multiply or divide, as for the case of HZ == 300, we
> currently do a multiply followed by a divide. The intervening
> result, however, is subject to overflows, especially since the
> fraction is not simplified (for HZ == 300, we multiply by 300 and
> divide by 1000).
>...
> kernel/Makefile | 8 +++
> kernel/time.c | 29 +++++++++---
> kernel/timeconst.bc | 123
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 kernel/timeconst.bc
>...
I have read the hep text, but are the advantages of HZ == 300 really
visible or was this more theoretical?
In the latter case, we might remove the HZ == 300 choice instead.
cu
Adrian
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