Re: [PATCH resend4 2/3] itimers: fix periodic tics precision

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Fri, 22 May 2009, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
>  
> +#define CPUTIME_SUB_NS(ct, real_ns) ({ 		\
> +	struct timespec ts;			\
> +	s64 cpu_ns;				\
> +	cputime_to_timespec(ct, &ts); 		\
> +	cpu_ns = timespec_to_ns(&ts);		\
> +	cpu_ns - real_ns;	 		\
> +})
> +

  Please make this an inline function. Also this should have a sanity
  check for values < 0, which might happen due to rounding errors. In
  that case you set it simply to 0.

>  	if (cputime_ge(cur_time, it->expires)) {
> -		it->expires = it->incr;
> -		if (!cputime_eq(it->expires, cputime_zero))
> -			it->expires = cputime_add(it->expires, cur_time);
> +		if (!cputime_eq(it->incr, cputime_zero)) {
> +			it->expires = cputime_add(it->expires, it->incr);
> +			it->error += it->incr_error;
> +			if (it->error >= onecputick) {
> +				it->expires = cputime_sub(it->expires,
> +							jiffies_to_cputime(1));
> +				it->error -= onecputick;
> +			}

  Yep, that's a sane solution except for jiffies_to_cputime(), which
  can be precomputed as well.

Thanks,

	tglx