linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ntb: make DMA_OUT_RESOURCE

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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:43:11 -0400
From:   Jon Mason <jdmason@...zu.us>
To:     "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@...el.com>
Cc:     "hofrat@...dl.org" <hofrat@...dl.org>,
        "Allen.Hubbe@....com" <Allen.Hubbe@....com>,
        "logang@...tatee.com" <logang@...tatee.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com" <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        "arnd@...db.de" <arnd@...db.de>,
        "linux-ntb@...glegroups.com" <linux-ntb@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ntb: make DMA_OUT_RESOURCE_TO HZ independent

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Jiang, Dave <dave.jiang@...el.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2016-08-22 at 18:51 +0200, 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>
>
> Acked-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>

Pulled both patches into ntb-next

Thanks,
Jon

>
>> ---
>>
>> Problem found by coccinelle script
>>
>> The below patch sets the timeout to 50ms - not clear what HZ setting
>> was
>> assumed during design/testing, so this needs an ack by someone who
>> knows
>> the driver and can confirm that 50ms is reasonable to wait on DMA
>> retries.
>>
>> Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_NTB=m,
>> CONFIG_NTB_PERF=m
>>
>> Patch is against 4.8.0-rc2 (localversion-next is -next-20160822)
>>
>>  drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c
>> b/drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c
>> index 6a50f20..e065b69 100644
>> --- a/drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c
>> +++ b/drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c
>> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
>>  #define MAX_THREADS          32
>>  #define MAX_TEST_SIZE                SZ_1M
>>  #define MAX_SRCS             32
>> -#define DMA_OUT_RESOURCE_TO  50
>> +#define DMA_OUT_RESOURCE_TO  msecs_to_jiffies(50)
>>  #define DMA_RETRIES          20
>>  #define SZ_4G                        (1ULL << 32)
>>  #define MAX_SEG_ORDER                20 /* no larger than 1M for
>> kmalloc buffer */
>> --
>> 2.1.4
>>