[Intel-xe] [PATCH v3] drm/xe: Use nanoseconds instead of jiffies in uapi for user fence

Andi Shyti andi.shyti at linux.intel.com
Fri Jun 16 08:15:23 UTC 2023


Hi Zbyszek,

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 07:37:27AM +0200, Zbigniew Kempczyński wrote:
> Using jiffies as a timeout from userspace is weird even it theoretically
> exists possiblity of acquiring jiffies via getconf. Unfortunately this
> method is unreliable and returned value may vary from configured in the
> kernel config.
> 
> >From now on timeout is expressed in nanoseconds and its interpretation
 ^^^

you have a trailing '>' here, maybe a copy/paste error.

Andi


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