From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>,
"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@saeurebad.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which compare with jiffies
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 12:01:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080309120133.2d1363e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080309110808.2249aa3a@core>
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:08:08 +0000 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > Yes, This has a purpose as well. You will find most of the usage of these
> > macros are just compare some value with jiffies after doing some grep.
>
> That is no reason to add more macros that hide how they do it, or make
> jiffies itself invisible to the grep search or variable usage finding
> tools (and for tickless that very thing is important)
We could call them time_is_after_jiffies(), time_is_before_jiffies(), etc.
Those names are actually better than time_after_now(), etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-09 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-07 23:35 [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which compare with jiffies Dave Young
2008-03-08 16:12 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-03-09 0:54 ` Dave Young
2008-03-09 9:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-09 10:44 ` Dave Young
2008-03-09 11:08 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-09 19:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-03-09 20:06 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-10 2:03 ` Dave Young
2008-03-10 2:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-03-09 18:36 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-09 20:03 ` Alan Cox
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