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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 11:16:47 -0700 From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> To: George Spelvin <lkml@....ORG>, 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 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 13/50] Avoid some useless msecs/jiffies conversions On Sun, 2020-03-29 at 17:50 +0000, George Spelvin wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:13:33PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 14:11:29 +0200, George Spelvin wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 09:52:23AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > Fair enough. But it's still a question whether an open code X * HZ > > is > > good at all... > > I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "good at all" here. > The value computed is exactly the same. I think he means what the compiler does with it. We all assume that msecs_to_jiffies is properly optimized so there should be no need to open code it like you're proposing. So firstly can you produce the assembly that shows the worse output from msecs_to_jiffies? If there is a problem, then we should be fixing it in msecs_to_jiffies, not adding open coding. James
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