linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] blktrace: fix comment in blktrace

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Date:   Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:17:07 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Souvik Banerjee <souvik1997@...il.com>
Cc:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Shaohua Li <shli@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blktrace: fix comment in blktrace_api.h

On 3/30/18 1:32 PM, Souvik Banerjee wrote:
> The `__u64 time` field of the blk_io_trace struct refers to
> the time in nanoseconds, not in microseconds. It is set in
> __blk_add_trace, which does the following:
> 
>     t->time = ktime_to_ns(ktime_get());
> 
> ktime_to_ns returns ktime_t in nanoseconds, not microseconds.

Thanks, applied. Back way back when it used to be in microseconds, iirc,
I'm guessing the comment dates to back then.

-- 
Jens Axboe