On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> It is hardly novel and I can't imagine how Bresenham or whomever
> could make such a claim to the obvious. Even the DOS writer(s) used
> this technique to get one-second time intervals from the 18.206
> ticks/per second.
Ehh.. Look at _existing_ linux code to do exactly the same.
See update_wall_time_one_tick() and second_overflow() (which does a lot
more besides, but it does largely boil down to this "average fractions
using basic integer math" thing.
Linus
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