Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/tsc: set LAPIC timer frequency to crystal clock frequency

From: Daniel Drake
Date: Mon Apr 22 2019 - 23:06:52 EST


On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 8:04 PM Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Minor style nit: the parentheses are unnecessary, integer expressions
> like this are evaluated left to right and multiplication and division has
> the same precedence.

Fair point, although the same could be said for cpu_khz_from_msr().

> But it might also make sense to actually store crystal_mhz instead of
> crystal_khz, because both CPUID 15H and 16H provides MHz values.
>
> That way the above expression would simplify to:
>
> lapic_timer_frequency = crystal_mhz / HZ;

Wouldn't it be
lapic_timer_frequency = crystal_mhz * 1000000 / HZ;
?

Thanks
Daniel