linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which compare with jiffies

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Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:03:47 +0800
From:	"Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@...urebad.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which compare with jiffies

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:08:08 +0000 Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
>  > > Yes, This has a purpose as well. You will find most of the usage of these
>  > > macros are just compare some value with jiffies after doing some grep.
>  >
>  > That is no reason to add more macros that hide how they do it, or make
>  > jiffies itself invisible to the grep search or variable usage finding
>  > tools (and for tickless that very thing is important)
>
>  We could call them time_is_after_jiffies(), time_is_before_jiffies(), etc.
>
>  Those names are actually better than time_after_now(), etc.
>
>
Andrew, Hannes, Alan,
thanks for your comment, I have send the new time_is_* patch as v3.

Hannes, It's more like your is_past/is_future but looks better when
along with _eq
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