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

From: john stultz (johnstul@us.ibm.com)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 18:49:25 EST


On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 15:48, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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...

Ok, fair enough. I'll double check that.

thanks
-john

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