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Date:	Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:01:35 +0000
From:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
CC:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>, <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
	<annie.li@...cle.com>, Jason Luan <jianhai.luan@...cle.com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net V2] xen-netback: use jiffies_64 value to calculate
 credit timeout

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:49:55AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 28.10.13 at 12:35, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com> wrote:
> 
> Two formal things:
> 
> > --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
> > @@ -1185,18 +1185,17 @@ out:
> >  
> >  static bool tx_credit_exceeded(struct xenvif *vif, unsigned size)
> >  {
> > -	unsigned long now = jiffies;
> > -	unsigned long next_credit =
> > -		vif->credit_timeout.expires +
> > -		msecs_to_jiffies(vif->credit_usec / 1000);
> > +	u64 now = get_jiffies_64();
> > +	u64 next_credit = vif->credit_window_start +
> > +		(u64)msecs_to_jiffies(vif->credit_usec / 1000);
> 
> The cast to u64 seems pointless here.
> 
> > @@ -1207,7 +1206,8 @@ static bool tx_credit_exceeded(struct xenvif *vif, unsigned size)
> >  		vif->credit_timeout.function =
> >  			tx_credit_callback;
> >  		mod_timer(&vif->credit_timeout,
> > -			  next_credit);
> > +			  (unsigned long)next_credit);
> 
> And the cast here seems pointless too (gcc doesn't warn about
> truncations).
> 

Will fix these, thanks.

Wei.

> Jan
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