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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: hofrat@osadl•org, 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 14:09:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1432069747.2870.215.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150519.164555.1631069770118420652.davem@davemloft.net>

On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 16:45 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Joe Perches <joe@perches•com>
> Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 07:32:15 -0700
> 
> > 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.

The other thing that could be done is to use
	max(1ul, msecs_to_jiffies())
so that there's always some delay even if HZ <= 50

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-19 21:09 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
2015-05-19 20:45   ` David Miller
2015-05-19 21:09     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-05-20  1:44       ` Guenter Roeck
2015-05-20  3:57         ` Joe Perches
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-05-23 12:46 Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-05-25 21:39 ` David Miller

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