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From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] clockevents: Retry programming min delta up to 10
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, Matt Redfearn wrote:
>  	unsigned long long clc;
>  	int64_t delta;
> +	int i;
>  
> -	delta = dev->min_delta_ns;
> -	dev->next_event = ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), delta);
> +	for (i = 0;;) {

Bah. What's wrong with

	for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {

	    	....
		if (!(dev->set_next_event((unsigned long) clc, dev))
			return 0;
	}
	return -ETIME;

Hmm?

> +		delta = dev->min_delta_ns;
> +		dev->next_event = ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), delta);
>  
> -	if (clockevent_state_shutdown(dev))
> -		return 0;
> +		if (clockevent_state_shutdown(dev))
> +			return 0;
>  
> -	dev->retries++;
> -	clc = ((unsigned long long) delta * dev->mult) >> dev->shift;
> -	return dev->set_next_event((unsigned long) clc, dev);
> +		dev->retries++;
> +		clc = ((unsigned long long) delta * dev->mult) >> dev->shift;

I'd rather make that:

	delta = 0;
	for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
		delta += dev->min_delta_ns;
		dev->next_event = ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), delta);
		clc = .....
	   	.....

That makes it more likely to succeed fast. Hmm?

Thanks,

	tglx