Re: printk

Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
29 Nov 1999 16:46:11 +0100


"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:

|> Most kernel stuff has 'HZ' granularity so you get 'decimal' information
|> easily like:
|>
|> cpu_time = whatever();
|> printk("CPU = %lu.%lu\n", cpu_time/HZ, cpu_time % HZ);

This gives misleading numbers in the output if HZ != 100. Even if HZ is
100 the output is misleading if cpu_time % HZ < 10.

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