From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: Bernd Faust <berndfaust@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Round the calculated scale factor in set_cyc2ns_scale()
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:28:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D2074D.4000101@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354717009-2687-1-git-send-email-berndfaust@gmail.com>
On 12/05/2012 06:16 AM, Bernd Faust wrote:
> During some experiments with an external clock (in a FPGA), we saw that
> the TSC clock drifted approx. 2.5ms per second.
>
> This drift was caused by the current way of calculating the scale.
> In our case cpu_khz had a value of 3292725. This resulted in a scale
> value of 310. But when doing the calculation by hand it shows that the
> actual value is 310.9886188491, so a value of 311 would be more precise.
>
> With this change the value is rounded.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernd Faust <berndfaust@gmail.com>
Thanks for sending this in! I've queued it, but because I was slow here,
it will have to wait for 3.9.
Sorry for the delay, and thanks again!
-john
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2012-12-05 14:16 [PATCH] Round the calculated scale factor in set_cyc2ns_scale() Bernd Faust
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