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From: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] rust: time: add msecs to jiffies conversion
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On 12/16/23 16:31, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> Defines type aliases and conversions for msecs and jiffies.
>=20
> This is used by Rust Binder for process freezing. There, we want to
> sleep until the freeze operation completes, but we want to be able to
> abort the process freezing if it doesn't complete within some timeout.
> The freeze timeout is supplied in msecs.
>=20
> Note that we need to convert to jiffies in Binder. It is not enough to
> introduce a variant of `CondVar::wait_timeout` that takes the timeout in
> msecs because we need to be able to restart the sleep with the remaining
> sleep duration if it is interrupted, and if the API takes msecs rather
> than jiffies, then that would require a conversion roundtrip jiffies->
> msecs->jiffies that is best avoided.
>=20
> Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>

--=20
Cheers,
Benno