From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch 4/5] net: hip04: Make tx coalesce timer actually work Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:15:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20150414.141529.797692010779414843.davem@davemloft.net> References: <3040901.Bp3bfgc1te@wuerfel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@kernel.org, dingtianhong@huawei.com, zhangfei.gao@linaro.org, dan.carpenter@oracle.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: tglx@linutronix.de Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 00:08:23 +0200 (CEST) > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Monday 13 April 2015 23:42:03 Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> > > >> > > Question: this looks to me like it sets both the minimum and maximum >> > > time to priv->tx_coalesce_usecs/2, when the intention was to set >> > > the minimum to priv->tx_coalesce_usecs/2 and the maximum to >> > > priv->tx_coalesce_usecs. Am I missing something subtle here, or did >> > > you just misread my original intention from the botched code? >> > >> > Yes, I missed that. Simple fix for this is: >> > >> > unsigned long t_ns = priv->tx_coalesce_usecs * NSEC_PER_USEC / 2; >> > >> > hrtimer_start_range_ns(&priv->tx_coalesce_timer, ns_to_ktime(t_ns), >> > t_ns, HRTIMER_MODE_REL); >> >> Ah, good. I have to admit that I'd probably make the same mistake >> again if I was to do this for another driver and you hadn't sent >> the fix. The hrtimer_set_expires_range() function just looked like >> it had been designed for the use case I was interested in ;-). >> >> Any idea how to prevent the next person from making the same mistake? > > Yes. Documentation :) Can I get a respin of this patch with the above?