* Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 16:47 -0700, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > IMO, lpj_tsc explains how is this variable initialized. But thinking
> > > about it, maybe we should rename it to "lpj_timer" ?
> > 
> > ok. But instead of 'lpj_timer' i'd suggest to use something like
> > 'lpj_fine' - as this really is about finegrained measurements.
> 
> Ok.
> > 
> > I'd suggest a delta patch against tip/master that renames all those
> > tsc_* variables to fine_*. So tsc_rate_min would become fine_rate_min,
> > etc.
> 
> Ingo, tsc_rate_min etc are related to the timer rate so calling it 
> fine_rate_min would be confusing IMO. Instead i call it as 
> timer_rate_min. Below is the patch on tip/master. Tested on both 32 
> and 64 bit environment, tree works fine for me.

applied to tip/x86/delay - thanks Alok.

	Ingo
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