Re: MSEC_TO_JIFFIES is messed up...

[Andrew Morton]

Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> yet another patch - this time it's: complete, covers irda, accelerates
>  HZ=100, unifies the slightly differing namespaces and compiles/boots as
>  well.
> 
> ...
> 
> [hz-cleanup-2.6.6-A2  text/plain (2657 bytes)]

This doesn't have the little round up which some implementations had, so
someone who tries to sleep for 9 millisscondes on a 100HZ box may end up in
a busywait.  Looks risky.

The SCTP version looks like it'll generate awful code, so let's not use
that.

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