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From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
	edumazet@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
	richardcochran@gmail.com, peterz@infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arpana Arland <arpanax.arland@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ice: add and use roundup_u64 instead of open coding equivalent
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 21:22:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240508202201.GB2248333@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240507205441.1657884-1-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>

On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 01:54:39PM -0700, Tony Nguyen wrote:
> From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
> 
> In ice_ptp_cfg_clkout(), the ice driver needs to calculate the nearest next
> second of a current time value specified in nanoseconds. It implements this
> using div64_u64, because the time value is a u64. It could use div_u64
> since NSEC_PER_SEC is smaller than 32-bits.
> 
> Ideally this would be implemented directly with roundup(), but that can't
> work on all platforms due to a division which requires using the specific
> macros and functions due to platform restrictions, and to ensure that the
> most appropriate and fast instructions are used.
> 
> The kernel doesn't currently provide any 64-bit equivalents for doing
> roundup. Attempting to use roundup() on a 32-bit platform will result in a
> link failure due to not having a direct 64-bit division.
> 
> The closest equivalent for this is DIV64_U64_ROUND_UP, which does a
> division always rounding up. However, this only computes the division, and
> forces use of the div64_u64 in cases where the divisor is a 32bit value and
> could make use of div_u64.
> 
> Introduce DIV_U64_ROUND_UP based on div_u64, and then use it to implement
> roundup_u64 which takes a u64 input value and a u32 rounding value.
> 
> The name roundup_u64 matches the naming scheme of div_u64, and future
> patches could implement roundup64_u64 if they need to round by a multiple
> that is greater than 32-bits.
> 
> Replace the logic in ice_ptp.c which does this equivalent with the newly
> added roundup_u64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Arpana Arland <arpanax.arland@intel.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-08 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-07 20:54 [PATCH net-next] ice: add and use roundup_u64 instead of open coding equivalent Tony Nguyen
2024-05-08 20:22 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2024-05-11  1:13 ` Jakub Kicinski

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