From: Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@vrijschrift.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Timed wait/sleep
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:33:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bqe4t6ez.wl@dekkers.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c0c43de0707221438o11d55a5djf46034a0d096cdd8@mail.gmail.com>
At Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:38:14 -0400,
Alex Roman wrote:
>
> Sorry, what do you mean by busy waiting?
Busy waiting is looping while checking whether a condition
changed. E.g.
while(condition_is_true());
It would be nicer to let the processor sleep for a while. I'm not sure
whether we can actually do that easily in GRUB however...
Jeroen Dekkers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-22 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-06 21:57 Timed wait/sleep Alex Roman
2007-07-06 22:04 ` Haudy Kazemi
2007-07-06 22:21 ` Alex Roman
2007-07-07 10:29 ` Jan C. Kleinsorge
2007-07-22 13:48 ` Marco Gerards
2007-07-22 21:38 ` Alex Roman
2007-07-22 22:33 ` Jeroen Dekkers [this message]
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2007-07-07 6:47 Amin Azez
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