Re: MSEC_TO_JIFFIES is messed up...

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed May 12 2004 - 14:39:01 EST



* Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >Woah, that's new. And wrong. The code in include/asm-i386/param.h that
> >says:
> > # define JIFFIES_TO_MSEC(x) (x)
> > # define MSEC_TO_JIFFIES(x) (x)
> >
> >Is not correct. Look at kernel/sched.c for verification of this :)
>
>
> Yes, that is _massively_ broken.

why is it wrong?

Ingo
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