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Russell King wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:36:46AM -0700, george anzinger wrote: > >>In the current system (2.5.67) time_spec to jiffies, time_val to >>jiffies and the converse (jiffies to time_val and jiffies to >>time_spec) all use 1/HZ as the measure of a jiffie. Because of the >>inability of the PIT to actually generate an accurate 1/HZ interrupt, >>the wall clock is updated with a more accurate value (999848 >>nanoseconds per jiffie for HZ = 1000). > > > There's an increasing amount of 64-bit math appearing here, which gcc > has been historically bad with. Is there any chance that all this > extra complexity can vanish for architectures which do not have this > problem? I suppose that is possible. On the other hand, the only 64-bit things we leave to C are the "+" and shift. > -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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