delaying "milliseconds" in the kernel

delaying "milliseconds" in the kernel

[Marty Leisner]

I'm writing a driver, and want to delay n milliseconds
in an algorithm.

Timers need jiffies, so I need to convert.

Is there a standard to define time?  (I didn't see it -- seems
everything is in HZ).

I wanted a macro or something so I could express my constraint
in milliseconds, and it would be converted to jiffies...

I wanted something like a macro:
#define MSECS_TO_JIFFIES(x)     (x*(HZ/1000))

It seems there is no "standard" way to do this in the kernel
(I ran gid on 2.4.5).

The only think I easily saw was:
drivers/isdn/sc/hardware.h:112:#define milliseconds(x)  (x/(1000/HZ))
which would do what I wanted...I would want to see this at a higher level...

Instead of throwing around HZ everywhere (and having to inuitate how this
mapped time to jiffies), would it be a good idea to have some 
standard way to express milliseconds -- since time is important,
jiffies are an implementation detail.

I think the code would be much clear if I saw
MSECS_TO_JIFFIES(250)
instead of 
(HZ/4)


Just IMHO

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