On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Avoid the intermediate step going from timeval to timespec64 to
> ktime_t and back by using ktime_t throughout the code.
>
> I was going back and forth between the two implementations.
> This patch is optional: if we want it, it could be folded into
> the patch converting to itimerspec64.
>
> On an arm32 build, this version actually produces 10% larger
> code than the timespec64 version, while on x86-64 it's the
> same as before, and the number of source lines stays the
> same as well.
Right. For 32bit without a native 64/32 division this is going to be more
text and I'm not really convinvced that this buys us anything.
Thanks,
tglx
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