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From: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 01/11] timekeeping: move multigrain timestamp floor handling into timekeeper
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:17:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANDhNCpPr-MvQhV7P6at9fQ-UpM_Q9R+S9oVqjHyguOgzrrZZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8756a43fe0b7c3f418b351adb05e7a146d33bdfe.camel@kernel.org>

On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 12:06 PM Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-09-13 at 11:59 -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > > +/**
> > > + * ktime_get_real_ts64_mg - attempt to update floor value and return result
> > > + * @ts:                pointer to the timespec to be set
> > > + * @cookie:    opaque cookie from earlier call to ktime_get_coarse_real_ts64_mg()
> > > + *
> > > + * Get a current monotonic fine-grained time value and attempt to swap
> > > + * it into the floor using @cookie as the "old" value. @ts will be
> > > + * filled with the resulting floor value, regardless of the outcome of
> > > + * the swap.
> >
> > I'd add more detail here to clarify that this can return a coarse
> > floor value if the cookie is stale.
> >
>
> Sure, or I can just drop the cookie, if that's better.

That seems like the simpler approach, but I don't have a sense of the
actual performance impact, so I'll leave that decision to you.

thanks
-john


  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-13 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-13 13:54 [PATCH v7 00/11] fs: multigrain timestamp redux Jeff Layton
2024-09-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 01/11] timekeeping: move multigrain timestamp floor handling into timekeeper Jeff Layton
2024-09-13 18:59   ` John Stultz
2024-09-13 19:05     ` John Stultz
2024-09-13 19:06     ` Jeff Layton
2024-09-13 19:17       ` John Stultz [this message]
2024-09-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 02/11] fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps Jeff Layton
2024-09-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 03/11] fs: have setattr_copy handle multigrain timestamps appropriately Jeff Layton
2024-09-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 04/11] fs: handle delegated timestamps in setattr_copy_mgtime Jeff Layton
2024-09-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 05/11] fs: tracepoints around multigrain timestamp events Jeff Layton
2024-09-13 14:02   ` Jeff Layton
2024-09-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 06/11] fs: add percpu counters for significant " Jeff Layton
2024-09-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 07/11] Documentation: add a new file documenting multigrain timestamps Jeff Layton
2024-09-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 08/11] xfs: switch to " Jeff Layton
2024-09-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 09/11] ext4: " Jeff Layton
2024-09-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 10/11] btrfs: convert " Jeff Layton
2024-09-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v7 11/11] tmpfs: add support for " Jeff Layton
2024-09-14 13:29 ` [PATCH v7 00/11] fs: multigrain timestamp redux Christian Brauner
2024-09-14 13:37   ` Jeff Layton

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