netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: clean up use of jiffies in tcp_rcv_rtt

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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:56:26 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@...gle.com>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>, ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: clean up use of jiffies in tcp_rcv_rtt_measure()

On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 11:29 -0400, Neal Cardwell wrote:
> Clean up a reference to jiffies in tcp_rcv_rtt_measure() that should
> instead reference tcp_time_stamp. Since the result of the subtraction
> is passed into a function taking u32, this should not change any
> behavior (and indeed the generated assembly does not change on
> x86_64). However, it seems worth cleaning this up for consistency and
> clarity (and perhaps to avoid bugs if this is copied and pasted
> somewhere else).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>



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