Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2012-12-19

Re: [PATCH] Round the calculated scale factor in set_cyc2ns_scale()

From: John Stultz <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-19 18:28:41
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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 <redacted>
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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