linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] liquidio: make timeout HZ independent and readable

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Message-Id: <20180706.110730.784787207378309674.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 06 Jul 2018 11:07:30 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hofrat@...dl.org
Cc:     derek.chickles@...iumnetworks.com,
        satananda.burla@...iumnetworks.com,
        felix.manlunas@...iumnetworks.com,
        raghu.vatsavayi@...iumnetworks.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] liquidio: make timeout HZ independent and readable

From: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
Date: Mon,  2 Jul 2018 20:13:15 +0200

> schedule_timeout_* takes a timeout in jiffies but the code currently is
> passing in a constant which makes this timeout HZ dependent. So define
> a constant with (hopefully) meaningful name and pass it through
> msecs_to_jiffies() to fix the HZ dependency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
> commit f21fb3ed364b ("Add support of Cavium Liquidio ethernet adapters")

Applied, thank you.