On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:04:10PM -0500, Rune Torgersen wrote: > > My bigger problem with the walltime is that time_nsec should have been > 1000000, not 999848 to begin with. If it had been, I would probably > never even have noticed it. > > The thing is that that value is set based on a value I cannot find any > reference as how was chosen. Looks to be a leftover when porting PPC > fron i386 once upon a time. > > time_nsec basically gets is value (via some macros) from > CLOCK_TICK_RATE, which is defined in asm-ppc/timex.h to be 1193180 > > In my opinion, time_nsec should have been calculated based on the actual > clock input rate to begin with (like in calibrate_decrementer()).
Fair enough, why then instead of fixing the root cause you are making ugly workarounds :) ? -- Eugene
