linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] rdma: Converge on using secs_to

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Message-ID: <20250220070729.GK53094@unreal>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:07:29 +0200
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: Easwar Hariharan <eahariha@...ux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...dia.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rdma: Converge on using secs_to_jiffies()

On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 09:36:38PM +0000, Easwar Hariharan wrote:
> This series converts users of msecs_to_jiffies() that either use the
> multiply pattern of either of:
> - msecs_to_jiffies(N*1000) or
> - msecs_to_jiffies(N*MSEC_PER_SEC)
> 
> where N is a constant or an expression, to avoid the multiplication.

Can you please provide justification for that? What is wrong with current code?

Thanks