From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 ver 2] Add round_jiffies_up and related routines
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 08:42:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081106074246.GS21867@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0811051617300.2187-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Wed, Nov 05 2008, Alan Stern wrote:
> This patch (as1158b) adds round_jiffies_up() and friends. These
> routines work like the analogous round_jiffies() functions, except
> that they will never round down.
>
> The new routines will be useful for timeouts where we don't care
> exactly when the timer expires, provided it doesn't expire too soon.
Thanks Alan, applied 1-2 for 2.6.28.
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-06 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-04 16:15 [PATCH 1/2] Add round_jiffies_up and related routines Alan Stern
2008-11-05 3:33 ` Tejun Heo
2008-11-05 16:20 ` Alan Stern
2008-11-05 19:11 ` Jens Axboe
2008-11-05 21:18 ` [PATCH 1/2 ver 2] " Alan Stern
2008-11-06 7:42 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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