Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: convert lls to use time_in_range()

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Tue Jul 02 2013 - 16:10:46 EST


On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 12:49 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
> Time in range will fail safely if we move to a different cpu with an
> extremely large clock skew.
> Add time_in_range64() and convert lls to use it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1->v2
> fixed double call to sched_clock() in can_poll_ll(), checkpatchisms
[...]
> --- a/include/linux/jiffies.h
> +++ b/include/linux/jiffies.h
> @@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ static inline u64 get_jiffies_64(void)
> ((__s64)(a) - (__s64)(b) >= 0))
> #define time_before_eq64(a,b) time_after_eq64(b,a)
>
> +#define time_in_range64(a, b, c) \
> + (time_after_eq64(a, b) && \
> + time_before_eq64(a, c))
[...]

Why not make this an inline function, so the caller doesn't need to
worry about repeated evaluation?

Ben.

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