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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: round_jiffies for schedule_delayed_work?
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:16:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D4A37D.8000203@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070215150615.GB3310@tuxdriver.com>

John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:39:23PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was looking through recent commits in wireless-dev and found
>> e226b8aa8921b6b75dcd0142a990b8c7bc1548fd which is correct, but I was
>> wondering if it may be possible to do it more efficiently.
>>
>> We don't really need this code running every second after we init,
>> having it run every second on average is good enough. I don't see any
>> way to do this with the delayed work API though since
>> schedule_delayed_work simply adds the timer at jiffies+delay.
>>
>> Should we be using a timer and round_jiffies() instead?
> 
> Using round_jiffies seems reasonable.  Perhaps the delayed work API
> can be extended to use it?

there is round_jiffies_relative() you can use for this kind of purpose....

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-15 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-14 21:39 round_jiffies for schedule_delayed_work? Johannes Berg
2007-02-15 15:06 ` John W. Linville
2007-02-15 18:16   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-02-16  9:03     ` Johannes Berg

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