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Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 09:13:34 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       tglx@linutronix.de, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com,
       "Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: x86: Clean up computation of HPET .mult variables
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* Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra2@gmail.com> wrote:

> PS: I also computed the "exact" value for hpet_clockevent.mult
> by hand and got 
> 
> hpet_clockevent.mult = 61496114.58 (exact)
> hpet_clockevent.mult = 61496114    (my patch)
> hpet_clockevent.mult = 61496110    (original)
> 
> so my patch in fact improves the accuracy (due to the fact that it 
> removes the extra do_div() to compute the frequency, which originaly 
> did not have the rounding trick.)

that's reassuring, thanks Carlos - patch is still queued up in x86.git. 
(with a v2.6.27-ish merge target, provided it all goes well.)

	Ingo