RFR (S): JDK-8079561: Add a method to convert coutners to milliseconds

[Mikael Gerdin]

Hi Bengt,

On 2015-05-07 10:14, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Could I have a couple of reviews for this small change?
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8079561
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8079561/webrev.00/

Looks good to me.

/Mikael

>
> TimeHelper contains a method called counter_to_seconds(jlong counter)
> that converts a counter, as returned by for example
> os:elapsed_counter(), into seconds. I'm currently working on a patch
> where I need to convert into milliseconds instead. So, I would like to
> add the method TimeHelper::counter_to_millis(jlong counter).
>
> It turns out that there are already a few places where we convert to
> milliseconds. These can now use the new method instead of explicitly
> multiplying with 1000.
>
> Thanks,
> Bengt