[U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: Increase precision of ticks2usec

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sun Mar 8 23:46:43 CET 2009


Dear Benoit Monin,

In message <9454366.19868.1236182927234.JavaMail.www at wwinf8202> you wrote:
> 
> The tick of some PowerPC cpu is running at high frequency and
> it can be used to get microsecond precision from it. Make use
> of div64 to achieve this precision in ticks2usec.

Which problem are you trying to fix?

Where exactly do we need very high accuracy?

What is the overhead of using do_div() versus the old, simple code?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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