netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 2/4] net: convert low latency sockets to sched

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Date:	Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:12:49 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, HPA <hpa@...or.com>,
	Eilon Greenstien <eilong@...adcom.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>,
	Alex Rosenbaum <alexr@...lanox.com>,
	Avner Ben Hanoch <avnerb@...lanox.com>,
	Or Kehati <ork@...lanox.com>, sockperf-dev@...glegroups.com,
	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@...ir.org.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 2/4] net: convert low latency sockets to
 sched_clock()

On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 04:57 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
> Use sched_clock() instead of get_cycles().
> We can use sched_clock() because we don't care much about accuracy.
> Remove the dependency on X86_TSC
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@...ux.intel.com>
> ---

>  
> -static inline bool can_poll_ll(cycles_t end_time)
> +static inline bool can_poll_ll(u64 end_time)
>  {
> -	return !time_after((unsigned long)get_cycles(),
> +	return !time_after((unsigned long)sched_clock(),
>  			    (unsigned long)end_time);
>  }

I do not really understand why you bother to have 64bit wide values,
and then use these "unsigned long" casts here.

On 32bit arches, this will really limit to 2^31 ns range.

You should instead either :
- use time_after_64() or 
- explicitly limit sysctl_net_ll_poll range


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