* [Linux-ia64] fix for slow running time-of-day
@ 2000-09-23 6:25 David Mosberger
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From: David Mosberger @ 2000-09-23 6:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-ia64
This patch fixes the time drift problem that has been plaguing us for
a while. It turns out that without it, time was running behind by
about 0.3%. Doesn't sound like a lot, but amounts to about 5 min/day.
Linus already accepted this patch for test9-pre6.
Enjoy,
--david
--- include/linux/timex.h~ Mon Jul 31 14:01:22 2000
+++ include/linux/timex.h Thu Sep 21 23:45:26 2000
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
#ifndef _LINUX_TIMEX_H
#define _LINUX_TIMEX_H
+#include <asm/param.h>
+
/*
* The following defines establish the engineering parameters of the PLL
* model. The HZ variable establishes the timer interrupt frequency, 100 Hz
@@ -58,10 +60,20 @@
* OSF/1 kernel. The SHIFT_HZ define expresses the same value as the
* nearest power of two in order to avoid hardware multiply operations.
*/
-#ifdef __alpha__
-# define SHIFT_HZ 10 /* log2(HZ) */
+#if HZ >= 24 && HZ < 48
+# define SHIFT_HZ 5
+#elif HZ >= 48 && HZ < 96
+# define SHIFT_HZ 6
+#elif HZ >= 96 && HZ < 192
+# define SHIFT_HZ 7
+#elif HZ >= 192 && HZ < 384
+# define SHIFT_HZ 8
+#elif HZ >= 384 && HZ < 768
+# define SHIFT_HZ 9
+#elif HZ >= 768 && HZ < 1536
+# define SHIFT_HZ 10
#else
-# define SHIFT_HZ 7 /* log2(HZ) */
+# error You lose.
#endif
/*
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