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pktgen: remove ndelay() call 

Daniel Turull reported inaccuracies in pktgen when using low packet
rates, because we call ndelay(val) with values bigger than 20000.

Instead of calling ndelay() for delays < 100us, we can instead loop
calling ktime_now() only.

Reported-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2011-10-20 17:00:21 -04:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent e9266a02b7
commit 33136d12be
1 changed files with 7 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -2145,9 +2145,12 @@ static void spin(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev, ktime_t spin_until)
}
start_time = ktime_now();
if (remaining < 100000)
ndelay(remaining); /* really small just spin */
else {
if (remaining < 100000) {
/* for small delays (<100us), just loop until limit is reached */
do {
end_time = ktime_now();
} while (ktime_lt(end_time, spin_until));
} else {
/* see do_nanosleep */
hrtimer_init_sleeper(&t, current);
do {
@ -2162,8 +2165,8 @@ static void spin(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev, ktime_t spin_until)
hrtimer_cancel(&t.timer);
} while (t.task && pkt_dev->running && !signal_pending(current));
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
end_time = ktime_now();
}
end_time = ktime_now();
pkt_dev->idle_acc += ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(end_time, start_time));
pkt_dev->next_tx = ktime_add_ns(spin_until, pkt_dev->delay);