On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 04:57 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
> Use sched_clock() instead of get_cycles().
> We can use sched_clock() because we don't care much about accuracy.
> Remove the dependency on X86_TSC
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.ta...@linux.intel.com>
> ---

>  
> -static inline bool can_poll_ll(cycles_t end_time)
> +static inline bool can_poll_ll(u64 end_time)
>  {
> -     return !time_after((unsigned long)get_cycles(),
> +     return !time_after((unsigned long)sched_clock(),
>                           (unsigned long)end_time);
>  }

I do not really understand why you bother to have 64bit wide values,
and then use these "unsigned long" casts here.

On 32bit arches, this will really limit to 2^31 ns range.

You should instead either :
- use time_after_64() or 
- explicitly limit sysctl_net_ll_poll range


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