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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 17:12:29 +0800
From: "Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] add time_after_now and other macros which compare with jiffies
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On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 11:09:01 +0800 Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > Most of time_after like macros users just compare jiffies and
>  > another number, so here add some other _now macros to do it.
>  >
>  > Another aproach is changing original time_ macros to use jiffies to compare,
>  > add a generic compare macro like time_compare(a, b)
>  >
>  > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
>  >
>  > ---
>  > jiffies.h |    8 ++++++++
>  > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>  >
>  > diff -upr linux/include/linux/jiffies.h linux.new/include/linux/jiffies.h
>  > --- linux/include/linux/jiffies.h     2008-03-07 10:40:04.000000000 +0800
>  > +++ linux.new/include/linux/jiffies.h 2008-03-07 10:50:12.000000000 +0800
>  > @@ -134,6 +134,14 @@ 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_after_now(a) time_after(jiffies, a)
>  > +
>  > +#define time_before_now(a) time_before(jiffies, a)
>  > +
>  > +#define time_after_eq_now(a) time_after_eq(jiffies, a)
>  > +
>  > +#define time_before_eq_now(a) time_before_eq(jiffies, a)
>  > +
>  >  /*
>  >   * Have the 32 bit jiffies value wrap 5 minutes after boot
>  >   * so jiffies wrap bugs show up earlier.
>
>  time_after() and friends drive me nutty.  I *always* have to go and look at
>  the definition to make sure that people got the args the right way around.

Andrew, thanks for your patient.

>
>  (does that)
>
>  > * time_after(a,b) returns true if the time a is after time b.
>
>  so, umm, I think you got it backwards.  Your time_after_now(a) will return
>  true if jiffies (ie: now) is after `a'.  ie: if a is before or equal to
>  "now".
>
>  All this shouldn't be as hard as it is.
>
>  One lesson we can learn from this: whatever we do, it needs careful
>  commenting.  Your change doesn't do that.
>

Indeed, I will add proper comment before them.

Thanks again.
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