Re: [patch 2.6.16-rc5-mm2] sched_cleanup-V17 - taskthrottling patch 1 of 2

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Sat Mar 04 2006 - 23:51:23 EST


On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 08:37 +1100, Peter Williams wrote:
> Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 10:58 +1100, Peter Williams wrote:
> >
> >
> >>If you're going to manage the time slice in nanoseconds why not do it
> >>properly? I presume you've held back a bit in case you break something?
> >>
> >
> >
> > Do you mean the < NS_TICK thing? The spare change doesn't go away.
>
> Not exactly. I mean "Why calculate time slice in jiffies and convert to
> nanoseconds? Why not just do the calculation in nanoseconds?"

Duh. Good question. Thanks :)

-Mike

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