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

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Message-ID: <20080309200339.1e39689a@core>
Date:	Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:03:39 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>,
	"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

> a) the existing macros are (I believe) a right royal pita.  It's very
>    hard to remember which order the args are supposed to be in.

Its operator(first, second) - the C++ infix operators aren't available in
C so there isn't much choice.

Really we should be trying to stamp out all these uses of jiffies tests
so that we can make tickless work ever better.

Alan
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