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Date:   Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:11:18 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To:     Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@linux.dev>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netpoll: Fix carrier_timeout for msleep()
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:57:53 +0800 Yajun Deng wrote:
> It should be sleep carrier_timeout seconds rather than 4 seconds if
> carrier_timeout has been modified.

carrier_timeout is for changing the upper bound of the wait,
not for controlling how long to wait if carrier is untrustworthy.

> Add start variable, hence atleast and atmost use the same jiffies, and
> use msecs_to_jiffies() and MSEC_PER_SEC match with jiffies.
> At the same time, msleep() is not for 1ms - 20ms, use usleep_range()
> instead, see Documentation/timers/timers-howto.rst.
> 
> Fixes: bff38771e106 ("netpoll: Introduce netpoll_carrier_timeout kernel option")
> Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@linux.dev>