linux-kernel - Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH] ipmi: pass timeout as HZ independent value

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jan 2016 15:59:07 +0000
From:	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
To:	Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@...onical.com>
Cc:	Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>,
	Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>,
	openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH] ipmi: pass timeout as HZ
 independent value

On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 07:37:29AM -0800, Nish Aravamudan wrote:
> On 07.01.2016 [14:52:37 +0100], Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > schedule_timeout_* takes a timeout in jiffies but the code currently is
> > passing in a constant which makes this timeout HZ dependent, so pass it
> > through msecs_to_jiffies() to fix this up.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
> > ---
> > patch was compile tested with x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_IPMI_HANDLER=m
> > 
> > Patch is against 4.4-rc8 (localversion-next is -next-20160107)
> > 
> >  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> > index 9fda22e..251d546 100644
> > --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> > +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> > @@ -1099,7 +1099,8 @@ static int ipmi_thread(void *data)
> >  			schedule();
> >  		else if (smi_result == SI_SM_IDLE) {
> >  			if (atomic_read(&smi_info->need_watch)) {
> > -				schedule_timeout_interruptible(100);
> > +				schedule_timeout_interruptible(
> > +							msecs_to_jiffies(100));
> 
> I believe you can use msleep_interruptible() for this.
>
yup - should be the same as its just a wrapper to 
schedule_timeout_interruptible() probably msleep_interruptible()
would be more readable than having the msecs_to_jiffies()
visible here.

thx!
hofrat
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