| To: | Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx |
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| Subject: | Re: MSEC_TO_JIFFIES is messed up... |
| From: | Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 12 May 2004 22:28:07 +0200 |
| Cc: | Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Netdev <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
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* Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
> The problem is that even for the i386 family, there's no inherent
> reason why the value of HZ is nailed to 1000 [...]
The code is 100% correct, but not 100% clean, and definitely not
documented. The reason for the change was to avoid unnecessary integer
multiplications and divisions in sched.c.
the attached patch (against BK-curr) cleans this up and makes the
defines generic and arch-independent.
Ingo
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