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From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <tomo@flapping.org>
Cc: a.hindborg@kernel.org, arve@android.com, boqun@kernel.org,
	 brauner@kernel.org, cmllamas@google.com, gary@garyguo.net,
	 gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, ojeda@kernel.org, tkjos@android.com,
	 acourbot@nvidia.com, anna-maria@linutronix.de,
	bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com,  dakr@kernel.org,
	daniel.almeida@collabora.com, frederic@kernel.org,
	 jstultz@google.com, lossin@kernel.org, lyude@redhat.com,
	sboyd@kernel.org,  tamird@kernel.org, tglx@kernel.org,
	tmgross@umich.edu, work@onurozkan.dev,
	 rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] rust: workqueue: use Delta for enqueue_delayed's delay parameter
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:59:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alSpDAILCIIU4q7u@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260712235246.3069713-4-tomo@flapping.org>

On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 08:52:45AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@gmail.com>
> 
> enqueue_delayed() took a raw jiffies count (a plain c_ulong alias with
> no type safety), so callers had to know on their own that the value
> meant jiffies and convert to/from it themselves. This mirrors the
> issue already fixed for CondVar's wait_interruptible_timeout().
> 
> Switch to Delta, the duration type already used elsewhere, so the
> unit is part of the type instead of a caller convention.
> 
> Use as_jiffies_ceil() rather than a plain truncating conversion:
> queue_delayed_work_on() treats a delay of 0 jiffies as "enqueue
> immediately", so truncating a small nonzero Delta down to 0 would
> silently turn a requested delay into no delay at all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@gmail.com>

It seems unfortunate that a caller might be forced to convert jiffies ->
nanos -> jiffies if they already have the value in jiffies.

Alice

  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-13  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-12 23:52 [PATCH v2 0/4] rust: use Delta instead of raw jiffies for timeouts and delays FUJITA Tomonori
2026-07-12 23:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] rust: time: add jiffies conversion helpers to Delta FUJITA Tomonori
2026-07-12 23:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] rust: sync: use Delta for CondVar timeout API FUJITA Tomonori
2026-07-12 23:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] rust: workqueue: use Delta for enqueue_delayed's delay parameter FUJITA Tomonori
2026-07-13  8:59   ` Alice Ryhl [this message]
2026-07-13  9:07     ` Onur Özkan
2026-07-13  9:40       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2026-07-13 11:55         ` Gary Guo
2026-07-13 12:17           ` FUJITA Tomonori
2026-07-12 23:52 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] rust: time: remove unused Jiffies/Msecs helpers FUJITA Tomonori

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