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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] dmtimer library is very inefficient today
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:58:59 +0200
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* Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org> [080319 22:32]:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:33:40AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> > and upstream folks tend dislike the polling loops like this:
> > 
> >    while(condition);
> > 
> > and prefer the semicolon on its own line to be clear that the loop is
> > indeed doing nothing.
> > 
> >    while(condition)
> >            ;
> > 
> 
> Once there, polling loops usually looks like this
> 
> 	while (condition)
> 		cpu_relax();

Thanks, I'll add those to the while looops.

Tony