Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 01/10] Introduce qemu_cond_timedwait for POSIX

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2012-04-05 13:19, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 5 April 2012 11:59, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
>> +/* Returns true if condition was signals, false if timed out. */
>> +bool qemu_cond_timedwait(QemuCond *cond, QemuMutex *mutex,
>> +                         unsigned int timeout_ms)
>> +{
>> +    struct timespec ts;
>> +    struct timeval tv;
>> +    int err;
>> +
>> +    gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
>> +    ts.tv_sec = tv.tv_sec + timeout_ms / 1000;
>> +    ts.tv_nsec = tv.tv_usec * 1000 + timeout_ms % 1000;
>> +    if (ts.tv_nsec > 1000000000) {
>> +        ts.tv_sec++;
>> +        ts.tv_nsec -= 1000000000;
>> +    }
>> +    err = pthread_cond_timedwait(&cond->cond, &mutex->lock, &ts);
> 
> Use clock_gettime() and avoid the need to convert a struct timeval
> to a struct timespec ?

Would save that "* 1000". I just wondered why we do not use it elsewhere
in QEMU and was reluctant to risk some BSD breakage.

Jan

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