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

[Bengt Rutisson]

On 08/05/15 10:46, Erik Helin wrote:
> On 2015-05-07, 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, Reviewed.

Thanks, Erik!

I'll push this through the hs-gc repo.

Bengt

>
> Thanks,
> Erik
>
>> 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