/**
* __round_jiffies - function to round jiffies to a full second
* @j: the time in (absolute) jiffies that should be rounded
* @cpu: the processor number on which the timeout will happen
*
* __round_jiffies() rounds an absolute time in the future (in jiffies)
* up or down to (approximately) full seconds. This is useful for timers
* for which the exact time they fire does not matter too much, as long as
* they fire approximately every X seconds.
*
* By rounding these timers to whole seconds, all such timers will fire
* at the same time, rather than at various times spread out. The goal
* of this is to have the CPU wake up less, which saves power.
*
* The exact rounding is skewed for each processor to avoid all
* processors firing at the exact same time, which could lead
* to lock contention or spurious cache line bouncing.
*
* The return value is the rounded version of the @j parameter.
*/
unsigned long __round_jiffies(unsigned long j, int cpu)
{
return round_jiffies_common(j, cpu, false);
}
/**
* round_jiffies - function to round jiffies to a full second
* @j: the time in (absolute) jiffies that should be rounded
*
* round_jiffies() rounds an absolute time in the future (in jiffies)
* up or down to (approximately) full seconds. This is useful for timers
* for which the exact time they fire does not matter too much, as long as
* they fire approximately every X seconds.
*
* By rounding these timers to whole seconds, all such timers will fire
* at the same time, rather than at various times spread out. The goal
* of this is to have the CPU wake up less, which saves power.
*
* The return value is the rounded version of the @j parameter.
*/
unsigned long round_jiffies(unsigned long j)
{
return round_jiffies_common(j, raw_smp_processor_id(), false);
}
/**
* __round_jiffies_up - function to round jiffies up to a full second
* @j: the time in (absolute) jiffies that should be rounded
* @cpu: the processor number on which the timeout will happen
*
* This is the same as __round_jiffies() except that it will never
* round down. This is useful for timeouts for which the exact time
* of firing does not matter too much, as long as they don't fire too
* early.
*/
unsigned long __round_jiffies_up(unsigned long j, int cpu)
{
return round_jiffies_common(j, cpu, true);
}
