Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:03:39 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>,
       "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@saeurebad.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which compare
 with jiffies
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> a) the existing macros are (I believe) a right royal pita.  It's very
>    hard to remember which order the args are supposed to be in.

Its operator(first, second) - the C++ infix operators aren't available in
C so there isn't much choice.

Really we should be trying to stamp out all these uses of jiffies tests
so that we can make tickless work ever better.

Alan
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