Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: convert lls to use time_in_range()

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Tue Jul 02 2013 - 16:43:11 EST


On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 23:28 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
> On 02/07/2013 23:10, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 12:49 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
> >> Time in range will fail safely if we move to a different cpu with an
> >> extremely large clock skew.
> >> Add time_in_range64() and convert lls to use it.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> v1->v2
> >> fixed double call to sched_clock() in can_poll_ll(), checkpatchisms
>
> >> +#define time_in_range64(a, b, c) \
> >> + (time_after_eq64(a, b) && \
> >> + time_before_eq64(a, c))
> > [...]
> >
> > Why not make this an inline function, so the caller doesn't need to
> > worry about repeated evaluation?
>
> I was following the conventions in jiffies.h
> (well almost, I did add a few spaces to make checkpatch happy)

I see, but now you have a good reason to change that convention.

Ben.

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