RE: [PATCH 05/12] mwifiex: avoid gettimeofday in ba_threshold setting

[Amitkumar Karwar]

Hi Arnd,

> From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:arnd@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 4:57 PM
> To: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: y2038@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; David S.
> Miller; Arnd Bergmann; Amitkumar Karwar; Nishant Sarmukadam; Kalle Valo;
> linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH 05/12] mwifiex: avoid gettimeofday in ba_threshold
> setting
> 
> mwifiex_get_random_ba_threshold() uses a complex homegrown
> implementation to generate a pseudo-random number from the current time
> as returned from do_gettimeofday().
> 
> This currently requires two 32-bit divisions plus a couple of other
> computations that are eventually discarded as only eight bits of the
> microsecond portion are used at all.
> 
> We could replace this with a call to get_random_bytes(), but that might
> drain the entropy pool too fast if this is called for each packet.
> 
> Instead, this patch converts it to use ktime_get_ns(), which is a bit
> faster than do_gettimeofday(), and then uses a similar algorithm as
> before, but in a way that takes both the nanosecond and second portion
> into account for slightly-more-but-still-not-very-random
> pseudorandom number.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c | 15 ++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c
> index 173d3663c2e0..878d358063dc 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c
> @@ -117,22 +117,15 @@ mwifiex_wmm_allocate_ralist_node(struct
> mwifiex_adapter *adapter, const u8 *ra)
>   */
>  static u8 mwifiex_get_random_ba_threshold(void)
>  {
> -	u32 sec, usec;
> -	struct timeval ba_tstamp;
> -	u8 ba_threshold;
> -
> +	u64 ns;
>  	/* setup ba_packet_threshold here random number between
>  	 * [BA_SETUP_PACKET_OFFSET,
>  	 * BA_SETUP_PACKET_OFFSET+BA_SETUP_MAX_PACKET_THRESHOLD-1]
>  	 */
> +	ns = ktime_get_ns();
> +	ns += (ns >> 32) + (ns >> 16);
> 
> -	do_gettimeofday(&ba_tstamp);
> -	sec = (ba_tstamp.tv_sec & 0xFFFF) + (ba_tstamp.tv_sec >> 16);
> -	usec = (ba_tstamp.tv_usec & 0xFFFF) + (ba_tstamp.tv_usec >> 16);
> -	ba_threshold = (((sec << 16) + usec) %
> BA_SETUP_MAX_PACKET_THRESHOLD)
> -						      + BA_SETUP_PACKET_OFFSET;
> -
> -	return ba_threshold;
> +	return ((u8)ns % BA_SETUP_MAX_PACKET_THRESHOLD) +
> +BA_SETUP_PACKET_OFFSET;
>  }
> 
>  /*
> --

Looks fine to me.
Acked-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Amitkumar
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