Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Add support for S3 non-stop TSC support.

[John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>]

On 03/05/2013 12:32 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:53:02AM +0800, Feng Tang wrote:
>
>>> // Drops some small precision along the way but is simple..
>>> static inline u64 cyclecounter_cyc2ns_128(const struct cyclecounter *cc,
>>>                                            cycle_t cycles)
>>> {
>>>      u64 max = U64_MAX/cc->mult;
>>>      u64 num = cycles/max;
>>>      u64 result = num * ((max * cc->mult) >> cc->shift);
>>>      return result + cyclecounter_cyc2ns(cc, cycles - num*cc->mult);
>>> }
>> Your way is surely more accurate, if maintainers are ok with adding
>> the new API, I will use it.
> Okay, give it a good look though, I only wrote it out in email, never
> tested it :)
>
Probably want to use clocksource instead of cyclecounter, but I think 
Jason's approach sounds ok. I might suggest that you initially make the 
function static to the timekeeping code, just so we don't get unexpected 
users.

thanks
-john