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Re: [PATCH] scsi: libfc: fix seconds_since_last_reset calculation

From "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] scsi: libfc: fix seconds_since_last_reset calculation
Date 2016-06-21 04:10 +0200
Message-ID <rMjiy-7VH-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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>>>>> "Arnd" == Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:

Arnd> The fc_get_host_stats() function contains a complex conversion
Arnd> from jiffies to timespec to seconds. As we try to get rid of uses
Arnd> of struct timespec, we can clean this up and replace it with a
Arnd> simpler computation.

Arnd> Simply dividing the difference in jiffies by HZ is not only much
Arnd> more efficient, it also avoids a problem that causes the
Arnd> seconds_since_last_reset value to be incorrect if jiffies has
Arnd> overrun since the 'boot_time' value was recorded.

Applied to 4.8/scsi-queue.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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[PATCH] scsi: libfc: fix seconds_since_last_reset calculation Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-06-17 17:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] scsi: libfc: fix seconds_since_last_reset calculation Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-06-20 16:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] scsi: libfc: fix seconds_since_last_reset calculation "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-06-21 04:10 +0200

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