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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: "Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
Cc: janitor@sternwelten.at,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	nacc@us.ibm.com
Subject: RE: [patch 08/10]  scsi/dpt_i2o: replace 	schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible()
Date: 21 Oct 2004 08:50:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098363038.1776.4.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60807403EABEB443939A5A7AA8A7458B40B5B1@otce2k01.adaptec.com>

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 07:44, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> The timeout granularity of 1 second should be the first clue that this
> is not important. Commands complete and wake up the task under normal
> operation; the timeout is to deal with an errant controller.

Erm, yes, but what you're doing is clearly incorrect, and the reason we
went to msleep variants anyway.  Your code forgets to set the current
state, so you stand a good chance of returning immediately from the
schedule_timeout() without even yielding the processor.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-21 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-21 11:44 [patch 08/10] scsi/dpt_i2o: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible() Salyzyn, Mark
2004-10-21 12:50 ` James Bottomley [this message]
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2004-10-21  8:47 janitor

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