On Tue, 17 Mar 2015, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2015-03-17 at 08:06 -0400, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > > Converting milliseconds to jiffies by "val * HZ / 1000" is technically > > OK but msecs_to_jiffies(val) is the cleaner solution and handles all > > corner cases correctly. This is a minor API consolidation only and > > should make things more readable. > > Hi Nicholas > > These API consolidation changes now always have a function > call when the compiler may have previously been able to > optimize out the "constant * HZ / 1000" calculation. > > Perhaps the [um]secs_to_jiffies calls should be indirected > with yet another static inline with a __builtin_constant_p() > test so that the function calls can again be avoided when > possible.
will give it a try > > (and a trivial style note) > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c > > b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c > [] > > @@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_escan(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct > > brcmf_cfg80211_vif *vif, > > > > /* Arm scan timeout timer */ > > mod_timer(&cfg->escan_timeout, jiffies + > > - WL_ESCAN_TIMER_INTERVAL_MS * HZ / 1000); > > + msecs_to_jiffies(WL_ESCAN_TIMER_INTERVAL_MS)); > > It may be nicer to keep the arithmetic on one line sorry that was plain carelessness afer it went over 80 char. > > mod_timer(&cfg->escan_timeout, > jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(WL_ESCAN_TIMER_INTERVAL_MS)); > thx! hofrat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
