Re: [PATCH] net: tcp: Fix a PTO timing granularity issue

[Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>]

Hi Eric,

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 09:23:36AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 11:23 -0400, Ido Yariv wrote:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <idox.yariv@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  include/net/tcp.h     | 9 +++++++++
> >  net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
> > index 2bb2bad..86090b6 100644
> > --- a/include/net/tcp.h
> > +++ b/include/net/tcp.h
> > @@ -1751,4 +1751,13 @@ static inline void skb_set_tcp_pure_ack(struct sk_buff *skb)
> >  	skb->truesize = 2;
> >  }
> >  
> > +/* Convert msecs to jiffies, ensuring that the return value is always at least
> > + * 2. This can be used when setting tick-based timers to guarantee that they
> > + * won't expire right away.
> > + */
> > +static inline unsigned long tcp_safe_msecs_to_jiffies(const unsigned int m)
> > +{
> > +	return max_t(u32, 2, msecs_to_jiffies(m));
> > +}
> 
> Note that you can do slightly better if m is a constant at compile
> time ;)
> 
> if (__builtin_constant_p(m) && m * 1000 >= 2 * HZ)
> 	return msecs_to_jiffies(m);
> return max_t(u32, 2, msecs_to_jiffies(m));
> 
> Or something like that ?

That's a nice optimization ;)

However, I think that with Nicholas Mc Guire's recent changes to
msecs_to_jiffies (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=143195210010666),
we should get this for free, no?

Cheers,
Ido.