Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:14:38 -0700 | From | Da Zheng <> | Subject | some confusion in timekeeping |
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Hello,
I try to understand the code in kernel/time/timekeeping.c, but it's very confusing. The most confusing part is shift. I don't understand why we need that? I notice that (clocksource.mult >> clocksource.shift) is the number of nanoseconds for each cycle, but I don't see a point why shift should be used. For example, the code below makes no sense to me. If clock->mult is the number of nanoseconds for a cycle, then we don't need to shift `tmp'. tmp = NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH; tmp <<= clock->shift; ntpinterval = tmp; tmp += clock->mult/2; do_div(tmp, clock->mult);
clocksource_jiffies uses 8 as the shift value, but I don't know why it is chosen. clocks_calc_mult_shift() is used to calculate shift and mult, but I don't understand how the algorithm works there. It seems there is very few documents about timekeeping.c
Can anyone help me understand the code or point me to some documents?
Thanks a lot, Da
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