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Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 21:33:49 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: MSEC_TO_JIFFIES is messed up...
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* Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:

> >Woah, that's new.  And wrong.  The code in include/asm-i386/param.h that
> >says:
> >	# define JIFFIES_TO_MSEC(x)     (x)
> >	# define MSEC_TO_JIFFIES(x)     (x)
> >
> >Is not correct.  Look at kernel/sched.c for verification of this :)
> 
> 
> Yes, that is _massively_ broken.

why is it wrong?

	Ingo