Re: [PATCH 2/2] time: allow gcc to fold constants when possible

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Jun 02 2015 - 17:23:49 EST


On Thu, 28 May 2015, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 19:09 +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > To allow constant folding in usecs_to_jiffies() conditionally calls
> > the HZ dependent _usecs_to_jiffies() helpers or, when gcc can not
> > figure out constant folding, __usecs_to_jiffies, which is the renamed
> > original usecs_to_jiffies() function.
>
> Hi Nicholas.
>
> Thanks for following through with this.
>
> The subject might be nicer if it referenced usecs_to_jiffies
> instead of being a bit generic.
>
> Maybe something like:
>
> time: allow gcc to fold usecs_to_jiffies(constant)

And for correctness sake the first letter after the colon, i.e. the
one starting the sentence wants to be uppercase.

I'm going to fix that up all together when applying the lot. No need
for resend.

Thanks,

tglx
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