On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 06:24 +0000, Vineet Gupta wrote: > On 08/29/2013 11:31 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > > I think the whole thing is odd and it should simply be > > > > loops = loops_per_jiffy * usecs_to_jiffies(usecs) [] > On the topic of multiply vs. divide (which probably is not relevant to topic > at > hand though), since ARCompact doesn't have native divide, we end up emulating > it > using libgcc routines. That makes it slightly non-deterministic (not a big > deal) > and also adds to boot time (which those delays sprinkled all over the place in > crazy device probes and such). Seriously we got hammered by a customer for > that once.
That argues more for reducing the uses of hard delays than making the hard delay count calculation simpler. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
