From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe W Damasio Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:42:28 +0000 Subject: Re: [Kernel-janitors] Re: [PATCH] nbd: replace schedule_timeout() Message-Id: <40FD4B74.9070501@terra.com.br> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============55905447958488041==" List-Id: References: <20040720130244.GE27492@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> In-Reply-To: <20040720130244.GE27492@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org --===============55905447958488041== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > After discussing with Greg, longer delays were considered those > measurable in milliseconds. I think msleep() helps add a layer of > consistency across the board. It also is (IMO) easier to think of times > and delays in terms of seconds / milliseconds rather than jiffies (this > becomes very apparent in later patches, where all sorts of crazy > conversions are replaced with simple numbers). Yeah, you're right, msleep seems to be the right way to go. Cheers, Felipe -- It's most certainly GNU/Linux, not Linux. Read more at http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html --===============55905447958488041== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors --===============55905447958488041==--