Re: Bug: loops_per_jiffy based udelay() mostly shorter thanrequested

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Wed Jan 12 2011 - 17:23:55 EST


On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:19:49PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Any suggestions or thoughts, or should we not care too much if udelay()
> > produces slightly shorter than desired delays?  Or am I doing something
> > horribly wrong in the ARM code?
>
> Judging by the numbers you quote, I would definitely put this in the
> "don't care too much".

Thanks - that's my thoughts too. I think I'm still going to push out
the rounding patch for the sake of correctness even though it's down
in the noise.
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