Re: [RFC][PATCH] linux-2.5.59_lost-tick_A0

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 18:48:35 EST


On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:31:08PM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> > what happens when 1000000 does not evenly divide HZ?
> > I think some ports use HZ=1024
>
> Then it comes out to close enough? I'm probably just not getting the
> problem. Could you further explain?

Have you checked it that it yields an usable value? I'm just asking
because I've been badly burned by such integer rounding issues in the
past, so it is better to double check them...

-Andi

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