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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: "Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Subject: Re: x86: Clean up computation of HPET .mult variables
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 21:21:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210134094.17132.228.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080507033931.GA5378@Pilar.virtua.com.br>


On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 00:39 -0300, Carlos R. Mafra wrote:
> So comparing with the numbers you quoted from your experiments
> you will realize that the value you got with my patch is actually
> 10 times better, so your assumption about clocksource_hz2mult
> being more correct is not good.

If that's the case then we really need to correct
clocksource_hz2mult() .. Since that function is what we use to calculate
the mult in most cases.

Daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-07  4:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-05 23:11 x86: Clean up computation of HPET .mult variables Carlos R. Mafra
2008-05-05 23:58 ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-06  2:13   ` Carlos R. Mafra
2008-05-06  3:23     ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-06 12:59       ` Carlos R. Mafra
2008-05-06 16:21         ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-06 20:50           ` Carlos R. Mafra
2008-05-07  2:17             ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-07  3:39               ` Carlos R. Mafra
2008-05-07  4:21                 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2008-05-07  7:13             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-06 12:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-06 13:13   ` Carlos R. Mafra
2008-05-06 18:51   ` rtc-cmos.c: Build fix Carlos R. Mafra
2008-05-07  7:10     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 21:31     ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-09  8:32       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-09 12:33         ` Carlos R. Mafra

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