On May 13, 2004, at 21:11, Andrew Morton wrote:
Paul Wagland <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This changes behaviour when HZ==(z)000
JIFFIES_TO_MSECS goes from
((x) * 1000) / (z)000 to (((x) + (z) - 1)/(z))
i.e. for x=1, z=2 this goes from ((1)*1000)/2000)=0 to
(((1)+(2)-1)/2)=1
hm, so you're saying that we now round 0.5 up to 1 rather than down to
zero?
More precisely, we round .x up, where before it was rounded down, but
yeah, _and_ only when HZ is a multiple of 1000, and greater than 1000.
This is also only the case for the patch as proposed by wli, currently
I don't know of any architectures that have a HZ of 2000 or more... but
I just note that it _is_ a behaviour change in those cases, whether or
not it is important is for other people to decide :-)
Cheers,
Paul
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