From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@nvidia.com>,
Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>,
Itamar Gozlan <igozlan@nvidia.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: Use secs_to_jiffies() instead of msecs_to_jiffies()
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:07:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250220120754.GQ53094@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9694B455-87B0-4A70-93C0-93FE77E3CD17@linux.dev>
On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 12:08:07PM +0100, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> On 20. Feb 2025, at 08:13, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 03:45:02PM -0800, Jacob Keller wrote:
> >> On 2/19/2025 12:49 PM, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> >>> Use secs_to_jiffies() and simplify the code.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
> >>
> >> nit: this is a cleanup which should have the net-next prefix applied,
> >> since this doesn't fix any user visible behavior.
> >>
> >> Otherwise, seems like an ok change.
> >
> > IMHO, completely useless change for old code. I can see a value in new
> > secs_to_jiffies() function for new code, but not for old code. I want
> > to believe that people who write kernel patches aware that 1000 msec
> > equal to 1 sec.
>
> Using secs_to_jiffies() is shorter and requires less cognitive load to
> read imo. Plus, it now fits within the preferred 80 columns limit.
Unfortunately, I see this change as a churn and not an improvement.
>
> This "old code" was added in d74ee6e197a2c ("net/mlx5: HWS, set timeout
> on polling for completion") in January 2025.
I got same conversion patches for RDMA.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250219-rdma-secs-to-jiffies-v1-0-b506746561a9@linux.microsoft.com
Thanks
>
> Thanks,
> Thorsten
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-20 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-19 20:49 [PATCH] net/mlx5: Use secs_to_jiffies() instead of msecs_to_jiffies() Thorsten Blum
2025-02-19 23:45 ` Jacob Keller
2025-02-20 7:13 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-02-20 11:08 ` Thorsten Blum
2025-02-20 12:07 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2025-02-20 21:56 ` Saeed Mahameed
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