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From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.de>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	george anzinger <george@mvista.com>, greg kh <greg@kroah.com>,
	Chris McDermott <lcm@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Too much error in __const_udelay() ?
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 23:23:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040607212348.GD23106@dominikbrodowski.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1086635568.2234.171.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:12:48PM -0700, john stultz wrote:
> I agree w/ Pavel that rounding up sounds better, but I can't get the
> math to work, so this may be the best solution. 

It's some strange sort of rounding, see my patch "3"...

> I'm also spinning up a patch w/ these changes to test, let me know how
> your testing went and I'll do the same.

Testing went fine -- even for the PMTMR-based delay case [*].

	Dominik

[*] though I noticed the cpufreq notifier breaks then: it updates
loops_per_jiffy without evaluating if it's indeed TSC- or even
frequency-based. It'll fail on cyclone, too, I think...

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-07 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-05  7:12 john stultz
2004-06-05 15:23 ` Dominik Brodowski
2004-06-06 19:46   ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-07 19:12   ` john stultz
2004-06-07 20:27     ` john stultz
2004-06-07 21:20     ` [PATCH 1/3] mull'ify multiplication with HZ in __const_udelay() [Was: Re: Too much error in __const_udelay() ?] Dominik Brodowski
2004-06-07 22:00       ` john stultz
2004-06-15  6:11       ` Dominik Brodowski
2004-06-07 21:22     ` [PATCH 2/3] round up in __udelay() " Dominik Brodowski
2004-06-07 21:23     ` [PATCH 3/3] fix for small xloops " Dominik Brodowski
2004-06-09 10:03       ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-07 21:23     ` Dominik Brodowski [this message]

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