linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] use round_jiffies() for slow work thread pool's 5 second cull timer

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Date:	Sun, 10 May 2009 15:23:00 +0100
From:	Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>
To:	Chris Peterson <cpeterso@...terso.com>
CC:	dhowells@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use round_jiffies() for slow work thread pool's 5 second
   cull timer

Chris Peterson wrote:
> The slow work thread pool culls its idle threads after 5 seconds without any work requests. Also, the slow work thread pool waits 5 seconds before starting new threads after OOM.
> 
> This patch uses round_jiffies() to round these 5 second timers to whole seconds. In this case, the actual timer wait would be between 4.75 and 5.75 seconds (because round_jiffies() rounds < 0.25 seconds down and > 0.25 seconds up). This patch also refactors the mod_timer() logic into a separate helper function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Peterson <cpeterso@...terso.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/kernel/slow-work.c b/kernel/slow-work.c
> index b28d191..9bfcb53 100644
> --- a/kernel/slow-work.c
> +++ b/kernel/slow-work.c
> @@ -318,6 +318,12 @@ cant_get_ref:
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(slow_work_enqueue);
>  
> +static void slow_work_defer_cull_time(void)
> +{
> +	mod_timer(&slow_work_cull_timer,
> +			  round_jiffies_relative(SLOW_WORK_CULL_TIMEOUT));
> +}
> +
Hi Chris,

Doesn't mod_timer take an absolute time not a relative one?

So I think this should be

	mod_timer(&timer,round_jiffies(jiffies + TIMEOUT) );

regards

Richard

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