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

Gustavo Sousa gustavo.sousa at intel.com
Fri Jun 16 13:34:20 UTC 2023


Quoting Zbigniew Kempczyński (2023-06-16 07:24:06-03:00)
>On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 10:15:23AM +0200, Andi Shyti wrote:
>> 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.
>
>I've checked in the patch and I don't see this character there. Are you
>sure you haven't inserted it unintentionally during review?
>

Drive-by comment: The ">" is probably due to an mbox[1] variant that uses it to
distinguish it from a new message delimiter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox

>--
>Zbigniew
>
>> 
>> Andi


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