On Tue 08 Aug 2017 05:11:27 PM CEST, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Why is this marked for-2.10?  Does it fix a bug?
>
> Theoretically, converting between int64_t and double loses precision
> on any values larger than 2^53.  In all practicality, though, if you
> expect throttling to be precise through 2^53 (approximately 16 orders
> of magnitude), you're crazy.

You cannot, THROTTLE_VALUE_MAX is set to 10^15, which is smaller than
2^50.

> So I'm also having a hard time seeing this as 2.10 material.

Right, as I said that was a wrong assumption from my side :) No need for
this in 2.10.

Berto

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