linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 13/50] Avoid some useless msecs/jiffies conversions

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Message-ID: <20200329121129.GC11951@SDF.ORG>
Date:   Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:11:29 +0000
From:   George Spelvin <lkml@....ORG>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        Marek Lindner <mareklindner@...mailbox.ch>,
        Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>,
        Antonio Quartulli <a@...table.cc>,
        Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>,
        b.a.t.m.a.n@...tynna.open-mesh.org,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        lkml@....org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 13/50] Avoid some useless msecs/jiffies conversions

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 09:52:23AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 02:25:10 +0200, George Spelvin wrote:
>> Likewise, "msecs_to_jiffies(seconds * 1000)" is more
>> conveniently written "seconds * HZ".
> 
> I thought the compiler already optimizes to the constant calculation
> for the above case?

It optimizes that if the entire argument, including "seconds", is
a compile-time constant.

However, given "msecs_to_jiffies(hdev->rpa_timeout * 1000);",
the computatin is non-trivial.