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From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [KJ] Re: [PATCH 9/21] char/ipmi_si_intf: replace schedule_timeout()
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:44:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050117224400.GN24698@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41EC332A.8020603@mvista.com>

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On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:41:15PM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
> Ok, I was unaware of the difference between msleep and mdelay (I was 
> actually reading "mdelay").
> 
> Actually, in the code I want to wait as small a time as possible without 
> spinning.  The operations being waited for generally happen in ~500us, 
> which is far too long to spin, but 10ms would be non-optimal if a faster 
> increment was available.  So I think it is still best as it is.

Yup, sounds right to me. Thanks for your help & responses!

-Nish

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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-17 21:50 [KJ] Re: [PATCH 9/21] char/ipmi_si_intf: replace schedule_timeout() Corey Minyard
2005-01-17 21:53 ` Corey Minyard
2005-01-17 22:31 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-01-17 22:41 ` Corey Minyard
2005-01-17 22:44 ` Nishanth Aravamudan [this message]

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