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From: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic•com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@tabi•org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse•com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org, linux-serial@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] serial/uuc_uart: Set shutdown timeout to CONFIG_HZ independent 2ms
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 08:36:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18303458.zhjk47K7B1@ws-stein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5845900B.5010108@tabi.org>

On Monday 05 December 2016 10:04:27, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Alexander Stein wrote:
> > -		schedule_timeout(2);
> > +		schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(2));
> 
> NACK.
> 
> So I don't remember why I wrote this code, but I don't think I was
> expecting it to be 2ms.  Instead, I think I just wanted it to be some
> delay, but I believed that schedule_timeout(1) was too short or would be
> "optimized" out somehow.
> 
> Note that right below this, I do:
> 
> 	if (qe_port->wait_closing) {
> 		/* Wait a bit longer */
> 		set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> 		schedule_timeout(qe_port->wait_closing);
> 	}
> 
> And wait_closing is a number of jiffies, so I knew that
> schedule_timeout() took jiffies as a parameter.
> 
> So I think I'm going to NACK this patch, since I believe I knew what I
> was doing when I wrote it five years ago.

Okay, I was just wondering why the timeout is dependant on the timer tick. 
That didn't seem obvious to me.
Rethinking about this, I would rather replace those lines with msleep instead.

Best regards,
Alexander

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-06  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-05 15:50 [PATCH 1/1] serial/uuc_uart: Set shutdown timeout to CONFIG_HZ independent 2ms Alexander Stein
2016-12-05 16:04 ` Timur Tabi
2016-12-06  7:36   ` Alexander Stein [this message]
2016-12-06 13:35     ` Timur Tabi

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