Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 05/26] Unexport ticks_per_sec variable. Create get_ticks_per_sec() function

[Paul Brook]

On Friday 11 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> malc wrote:
> > And generalizations are always true. Anyhow, i'm explicitly against the
> > patch, so first obtain the express acknowledgment from the leaders,
> > otherwise i'll revert it should it go in.
> 
> I'm adding the following patch to Juan's series.  The result is that
> get_ticks_per_sec() should be optimized to a literal value.  The result
> being that uses of it are faster than they were before (not it should
> matter).

Having this as a function/variable is completely misleading. It is and always 
will be 1000000000. You'd be better off using QEMU_TIMER_BASE directly.

Paul