From: Joe Perches <joe@perches•com>
To: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl•org>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz•org>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irda: irda-usb: use msecs_to_jiffies for conversions
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 07:32:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1432045935.2870.152.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1432032711-7020-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org>
On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 12:51 +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> Converting milliseconds to jiffies by "val * HZ / 1000" is technically
> is not a clean solution as it does not handle all corner cases correctly.
> By changing the conversion to use msecs_to_jiffies(val) conversion is
> correct in all cases.
>
> in the current code:
> mod_timer(&self->rx_defer_timer, jiffies + (10 * HZ / 1000));
> for HZ < 100 (e.g. CONFIG_HZ == 64|32 in alpha) this effectively results
> in no delay at all.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c b/drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c
[]
> @@ -848,7 +848,9 @@ static void irda_usb_receive(struct urb *urb)
> * Jean II */
> self->rx_defer_timer.function = irda_usb_rx_defer_expired;
> self->rx_defer_timer.data = (unsigned long) urb;
> - mod_timer(&self->rx_defer_timer, jiffies + (10 * HZ / 1000));
> + mod_timer(&self->rx_defer_timer,
> + jiffies + (msecs_to_jiffies(10)));
The unnecessary () around msecs_to_jiffies could be removed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-19 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-19 10:51 [PATCH] irda: irda-usb: use msecs_to_jiffies for conversions Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-05-19 14:32 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-05-19 20:45 ` David Miller
2015-05-19 21:09 ` Joe Perches
2015-05-20 1:44 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-05-20 3:57 ` Joe Perches
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2015-05-23 12:46 Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-05-25 21:39 ` David Miller
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