Re: [PATCH resend4 2/3] itimers: fix periodic tics precision

[Stanislaw Gruszka]

On Fri, 22 May 2009 16:27:40 +0200 (CEST)
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 May 2009, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> >  
> > +#define CPUTIME_SUB_NS(ct, real_ns) ({ 		\
> > +	struct timespec ts;			\
> > +	s64 cpu_ns;				\
> > +	cputime_to_timespec(ct, &ts); 		\
> > +	cpu_ns = timespec_to_ns(&ts);		\
> > +	cpu_ns - real_ns;	 		\
> > +})
> > +
> 
>   Please make this an inline function. Also this should have a sanity
>   check for values < 0, which might happen due to rounding errors. In
>   that case you set it simply to 0.

Ok.

 
> >  	if (cputime_ge(cur_time, it->expires)) {
> > -		it->expires = it->incr;
> > -		if (!cputime_eq(it->expires, cputime_zero))
> > -			it->expires = cputime_add(it->expires, cur_time);
> > +		if (!cputime_eq(it->incr, cputime_zero)) {
> > +			it->expires = cputime_add(it->expires, it->incr);
> > +			it->error += it->incr_error;
> > +			if (it->error >= onecputick) {
> > +				it->expires = cputime_sub(it->expires,
> > +							jiffies_to_cputime(1));
> > +				it->error -= onecputick;
> > +			}
> 
>   Yep, that's a sane solution except for jiffies_to_cputime(), which
>   can be precomputed as well.

Ok, I forgot PPC exist.

Thanks
Stanislaw
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