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From: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	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>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] time: allow gcc to fold constants when possible
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 09:27:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150604072725.GC30121@opentech.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1506022319570.20347@nanos>

On Tue, 02 Jun 2015, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Thu, 28 May 2015, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 19:09 +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > > To allow constant folding in usecs_to_jiffies() conditionally calls
> > > the HZ dependent _usecs_to_jiffies() helpers or, when gcc can not
> > > figure out constant folding, __usecs_to_jiffies, which is the renamed
> > > original usecs_to_jiffies() function.
> > 
> > Hi Nicholas.
> > 
> > Thanks for following through with this.
> > 
> > The subject might be nicer if it referenced usecs_to_jiffies
> > instead of being a bit generic.
> > 
> > Maybe something like:
> > 
> > time: allow gcc to fold usecs_to_jiffies(constant)
> 
> And for correctness sake the first letter after the colon, i.e. the
> one starting the sentence wants to be uppercase.
> 
added to my list of checks - sorry for being sloppy on that

> I'm going to fix that up all together when applying the lot. No need
> for resend.
>

thanks !
hofrat

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-04  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-28 17:09 [PATCH 1/2] time: refactor usecs_to_jiffies Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-05-28 17:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] time: allow gcc to fold constants when possible Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-05-28 18:02   ` Joe Perches
2015-06-02 21:23     ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-06-02 21:31       ` John Stultz
2015-06-02 21:41         ` Joe Perches
2015-06-04  7:27       ` Nicholas Mc Guire [this message]
2015-06-12  9:30   ` [tip:timers/core] time: Allow gcc to fold usecs_to_jiffies( constant) tip-bot for Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-06-12  9:30 ` [tip:timers/core] time: Refactor usecs_to_jiffies tip-bot for Nicholas Mc Guire

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