Re: kern/57718: mstohz rounds down, not up, which leads to surprising bugs when it rounds to zero

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/57718; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>
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Subject: Re: kern/57718: mstohz rounds down, not up, which leads to surprising
 bugs when it rounds to zero
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 08:55:33 -0800

 > On Nov 22, 2023, at 12:05 AM, Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> =
 wrote:
 >=20
 > While there are places that work around the issue, there are others
 > that do not. Auditing the code and cleaning up needs to happen with
 > or without a change to mstohz().
 
 If we=E2=80=99re going to go though all of this, we we please transition =
 away from the tick-oriented interfaces and move to a deadline model?  It =
 would remove all of the ambiguity from the call sites.
 
 -- thorpej