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| author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2010-01-05 09:17:33 +0900 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2010-01-05 09:17:33 +0900 |
| commit | 32032df6c2f6c9c6b2ada2ce42322231824f70c2 (patch) | |
| tree | b1ce838a37044bb38dfc128e2116ca35630e629a /kernel/time.c | |
| parent | 22b737f4c75197372d64afc6ed1bccd58c00e549 (diff) | |
| parent | c5974b835a909ff15c3b7e6cf6789b5eb919f419 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into percpu
Conflicts:
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S
include/linux/percpu.h
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time.c b/kernel/time.c index 2e2e469a7fec..804798005d19 100644 --- a/kernel/time.c +++ b/kernel/time.c @@ -662,6 +662,36 @@ u64 nsec_to_clock_t(u64 x) #endif } +/** + * nsecs_to_jiffies - Convert nsecs in u64 to jiffies + * + * @n: nsecs in u64 + * + * Unlike {m,u}secs_to_jiffies, type of input is not unsigned int but u64. + * And this doesn't return MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET since this function is designed + * for scheduler, not for use in device drivers to calculate timeout value. + * + * note: + * NSEC_PER_SEC = 10^9 = (5^9 * 2^9) = (1953125 * 512) + * ULLONG_MAX ns = 18446744073.709551615 secs = about 584 years + */ +unsigned long nsecs_to_jiffies(u64 n) +{ +#if (NSEC_PER_SEC % HZ) == 0 + /* Common case, HZ = 100, 128, 200, 250, 256, 500, 512, 1000 etc. */ + return div_u64(n, NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ); +#elif (HZ % 512) == 0 + /* overflow after 292 years if HZ = 1024 */ + return div_u64(n * HZ / 512, NSEC_PER_SEC / 512); +#else + /* + * Generic case - optimized for cases where HZ is a multiple of 3. + * overflow after 64.99 years, exact for HZ = 60, 72, 90, 120 etc. + */ + return div_u64(n * 9, (9ull * NSEC_PER_SEC + HZ / 2) / HZ); +#endif +} + #if (BITS_PER_LONG < 64) u64 get_jiffies_64(void) { |
