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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, "H. Peter Alvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	Aaron Sierra <asierra@xes-inc.com>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 V2] time: allow gcc to fold constants when using
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 07:18:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1429712309.32612.10.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1504221356340.13914@nanos>

On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 14:00 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > +extern unsigned long __msecs_to_jiffies(const unsigned int m);
> > +#if HZ <= MSEC_PER_SEC && !(MSEC_PER_SEC % HZ)
> > +static inline unsigned long _msecs_to_jiffies(const unsigned int m)
> > +{
> 
> This should move the comments explaining the logic for each variant as
> well.
[]
> It'd be nice to have this as two patches:
> 
> 1) Factor out the code into inline helpers w/o adding anything

It also might be nice to use a single static inline
with #ifdef blocks inside that inline rather than
have 3 separate static inline msecs_to_jiffies.

> 2) Add the __builtin_constant_p() check

And please add the usecs_to_jiffies variants in a
similar patch set.




  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-22 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-12 12:13 [PATCH 0/3 V2] time: use __builtin_constant_p() in msecs_to_jiffies Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-04-12 12:13 ` [PATCH 1/3 V2] time: move timeconst.h into include/generated Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-04-12 21:35   ` Rob Landley
2015-04-12 12:13 ` [PATCH 2/3 V2] time: allow gcc to fold constants when using Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-04-22 12:00   ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-04-22 14:18     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-04-22 15:12       ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-04-22 14:36     ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-04-22 14:44       ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-04-12 12:13 ` [PATCH 3/3 V2] time: update msecs_to_jiffies doc and move to kernel-doc Nicholas Mc Guire

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