[ofa-general] [PATCH] Use round_jiffies() in IPoIB code

[Anton Blanchard]

Hi Roland,

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:34:01PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> BTW, a question about all this wakeup-saving stuff.  For a case like
> this, would we be better off INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE(), since we
> don't really care about cleaning up stale address handles on a system
> that is totally idle and blissfully sleeping?
> 
> Similarly for the mthca code that polls the HCA for a catastrophic
> error (internal HCA crash), do you think we should be rounding the
> 5*HZ interval, or using a deferrable timer?

Good question, I've been playing it safe and just rounding timers, but
it does sound like both these cases would be served fine by using
INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE.

Want me to make a patch?

Anton