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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:31:11 +0000
Subject: Re: [Kernel-janitors] Re: Replaces yield() with nicedelay() on
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On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:24:40PM +0200, Domen Puncer wrote:
> On 02/05/04 22:24 -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It's the last REDIFF, but i'm not replacing yield() with 
> > schedule_timeout() because there's a nicedelay() (maybe the
> > usecs need to be tuned below) there:
> > 
> > 
> > static inline void nicedelay(unsigned long usecs)
> > {
> >         current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
> >         schedule_timeout(HZ);
> >         return;
> > }
> 
> And usecs stands for??
> Funny thing is that there are actualy uses of this function.

Heh, also look at using the msleep function instead of redefining your
own function.

thanks,

greg k-h

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