On 09/15/2016 12:03 AM, Richard Cochran wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:47:46PM +0300, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
As I understand (and tested), clocks_calc_mult_shift() will
return max possible mult which can be used without overflow.
Yes, BUT the returned values depends on the @maxsec input. As the
kerneldec says,
* Larger ranges may reduce the conversion accuracy by chosing smaller
* mult and shift factors.
In addition to that, frequency tuning by calculating a percentage of
'mult', and if 'mult' is small, then the tuning resolution is poor.
So we don't want @maxsec as large as possible, but as small as
possible.
Ok. So, will it work if maxsec will be ~= (maxsec / 2) + 1?
+ 1 to cover potential delays of overflow check work execution.
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regards,
-grygorii
