Re: [PATCH 2/3] NET: Generic rate estimator

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 10:15, Thomas Graf wrote:
> * jamal <1096896256.1072.4.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2004-10-04 09:24
> > What you need is to replace the HZ/4 in the creation and execution
> > of the timer with a constant. And that the value of said constant would
> > be preferably in the 250ms range.
> 
> HZ/4 == 250ms works except for HZ=122 (~246ms) and HZ=50 (~240ms).

is that bad to let those have a slight different innacurate value?
BTW wasnt there a jiffies2ms converter somewhere that we could use?
I thought i saw something posted of that nature recently.

>  I don't
> know how you think it is possible to find a constant around 250ms which
> works for all HZ values. The problem gets even minor if we do
> (HZ<<idx)/4 instead of (HZ/4)<<idx in which the inaccuracy only happens
> if idx is 0, i.e. interval == -2. 

There should really be no difference between the two;-> you realize /4
is merely <<2 ?

cheers,
jamal