> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Mc Guire [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 1:40 AM
> To: Dept-Eng QLogic Storage Upstream
> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley; linux-scsi; linux-kernel; Nicholas Mc Guire
> Subject: [PATCH] qla4xxx: pass timeout as HZ independent value
>
> schedule_timeout_* takes a timeout in jiffies but the code currently is
> passing in a constant which makes this timeout HZ dependent, so pass it
> through msecs_to_jiffies() to fix this up.
>
> patch was compile tested with x86_64_defconfig + SCSI_LOWLEVEL=y,
> CONFIG_SCSI_QLA_ISCSI=m
>
> Patch is against 4.1-rc5 (localversion-next is -next-20150527)
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <[email protected]>
> ---
>
> As there is no documentation of the intended timeout it might be wrong to
> convert it with msecs_to_jiffies as this can reduces the actual jiffies value by
> at least a factor of 10 - so someone that knows this driver needs to check on
> the actual value - but in any case it needs to be passed in a HZ independent
> way.
>
> drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_nx.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_nx.c b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_nx.c
> index 7c33658..7b53eab 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_nx.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_nx.c
> @@ -1569,7 +1569,7 @@ static int qla4_82xx_cmdpeg_ready(struct
> scsi_qla_host *ha, int pegtune_val)
> (val == PHAN_INITIALIZE_ACK))
> return 0;
> set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> - schedule_timeout(500);
> + schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(500));
>
> } while (--retries);
>
> --
> 1.7.10.4
Acked-by: Nilesh Javali <[email protected]>