From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add function spin_event_timeout()
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:51:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B5813F.5040303@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B58076.8020703@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> A jiffy is a really long time to be spinning, let alone liffies plural.
> In this use case are you expecting that the loop will iterate a very
> small number of times before returning, and the timeout case is a very
> unlikely error condition?
Yes, in version 3 of this patch, I switch to using udelay(). I might
need to post a v4 though.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-09 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-07 0:13 [PATCH] add function spin_event_timeout() Timur Tabi
2009-03-07 1:11 ` Roland Dreier
2009-03-07 1:25 ` Timur Tabi
2009-03-07 9:13 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-03-09 20:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-09 20:51 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
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