mwifiex: avoid gettimeofday in ba_threshold setting
mwifiex_get_random_ba_threshold() uses a complex homegrown implementation to generate a pseudo-random number from the current time as returned from do_gettimeofday(). This currently requires two 32-bit divisions plus a couple of other computations that are eventually discarded as only eight bits of the microsecond portion are used at all. We could replace this with a call to get_random_bytes(), but that might drain the entropy pool too fast if this is called for each packet. Instead, this patch converts it to use ktime_get_ns(), which is a bit faster than do_gettimeofday(), and then uses a similar algorithm as before, but in a way that takes both the nanosecond and second portion into account for slightly-more-but-still-not-very-random pseudorandom number. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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