On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:14:04AM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> 
> On 29/11/15 08:48, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >We have relied upon the sole caller (wait_ioctl) validating the timeout
> >argument. However, when waiting for multiple requests I forgot to ensure
> >that the timeout was still positive on the later requests. This is more
> >simply done inside __i915_wait_request.
> 
> As discussed on IRC please mention that the extra jiffie happens
> because nsecs_to_jiffies_timeout adds it. Otherwise it is not
> immediately clear why would it wait an extra one since
> __i915_wait_request has explicit code to ensure timeout does not go
> negative already.

Sorry, I was under the impression that everyone knew the history of our
*to_jiffies_timeout function variants.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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