netdev - Re: [PATCH 06/11] net/bonding: take msecs_to_jiffies

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Date:	Sat, 11 May 2013 00:19:36 +0300
From:	Imre Deak <imre.deak@...el.com>
To:	Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] net/bonding: take msecs_to_jiffies_min into use

On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 15:58 +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 03:13:24PM +0300, Imre Deak wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> > @@ -1751,7 +1751,7 @@ int bond_enslave(struct net_device *bond_dev, struct net_device *slave_dev)
> >  	read_lock(&bond->lock);
> >  
> >  	new_slave->last_arp_rx = jiffies -
> > -		(msecs_to_jiffies(bond->params.arp_interval) + 1);
> > +		(msecs_to_jiffies_min(bond->params.arp_interval));
> >  
> >  	if (bond->params.miimon && !bond->params.use_carrier) {
> >  		link_reporting = bond_check_dev_link(bond, slave_dev, 1);
> 
> This "+ 1" was actually meant as "plus one". We need to ensure that
> 
>   slave->last_arp_rx + msecs_to_jiffies(bond->params.arp_interval)
> 
> is strictly less than current value of jiffies.

Ok, I see, the adjustment here is for a different reason and
msecs_to_jiffies_min wouldn't express this properly. So we should drop
this patch. Perhaps it'd be nice to add something like the above
explanation as a code comment, to make it clear that the adjustment is
not for guaranteeing a minimum duration as it is in many other places.

--Imre

> So with proposed
> definition of msecs_to_jiffies_min() it works correctly but if the
> implementation ever changes in such way that
> 
>   msecs_to_jiffies_min(x) >= msecs_to_jiffies(x)
> 
> for some value of x, the code would be incorrect.
> 
>                                                        Michal Kubeček
> 


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