On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 07:51, Neil Conway wrote:
> I was looking at your jiffies_to_clock_t() macro, and I notice that it
> will screw up badly if the user chooses a HZ value that isn't a multiple
> of the normal value (e.g. 1000 is OK, 512 isn't).
OK, sure, but why specify a power-of-two HZ? There is absolutely no
reason to, at least on x86.
Want 512? 500 will do just as well and has the benefit of (a) being a
multiple of the previous HZ and (b) evenly dividing into our concept of
time.
Robert Love
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