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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/7] ps3: Storage Driver Probing
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 08:47:09 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1180133229.19517.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705251818.03964.arnd@arndb.de>

On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 18:18 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > +static u64 ps3stor_wait_for_completion(u64 devid, u64 tag,
> > +                                    unsigned int timeout)
> > +{
> > +     unsigned int retries = 0;
> > +     u64 res = -1, status;
> > +
> > +     for (retries = 0; retries < timeout; retries++) {
> > +             res =
> lv1_storage_check_async_status(NOTIFICATION_DEVID, tag,
> > +                                                  &status);
> > +             if (!res)
> > +                     break;
> > +             set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> > +             schedule_timeout(1);
> > +     }
> 
> Any reason not to use msleep(1) instead of the schedule_timeout? 

Both look equally ugly though... do you really have to poll ?

Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-25 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-25  8:36 [patch 0/7] RFC: PS3 Storage Drivers Geert.Uytterhoeven
2007-05-25  8:36 ` [patch 1/7] ps3: Preallocate bootmem memory for the PS3 FLASH ROM storage driver Geert.Uytterhoeven
2007-05-25 22:35   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-26  8:51     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-26 22:17       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-27 18:24         ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-25  8:36 ` [patch 2/7] ps3: Extract ps3_repository_find_bus() Geert.Uytterhoeven
2007-05-25  8:36 ` [patch 3/7] ps3: Storage Driver Core Geert.Uytterhoeven
2007-05-25  8:36 ` [patch 4/7] ps3: Storage Driver Probing Geert.Uytterhoeven
2007-05-25 16:18   ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-25 17:09     ` Geoff Levand
2007-05-25 19:48     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-25 22:54       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-25 22:47     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-05-26  8:56       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-25  8:36 ` [patch 5/7] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Geert.Uytterhoeven
2007-05-25 11:45   ` Olaf Hering
2007-05-25 19:43     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-25 20:47       ` Olaf Hering
2007-05-25 16:26   ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-25 19:40     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-25 20:43       ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-25 21:22         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-25 22:45           ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-25 22:53       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-25 22:48     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-25  8:36 ` [patch 6/7] ps3: ROM " Geert.Uytterhoeven
2007-05-25 11:24   ` Olaf Hering
2007-05-25 22:45     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-26  8:52       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-26 22:18         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-29  9:55           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-25 16:50   ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-25 19:36     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-25 21:04       ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-29 10:51         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-29 10:49   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-29 11:11     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-29 11:31       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-30 10:13       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-30 11:45         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-30 17:18           ` Geoff Levand
2007-05-29 16:21     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-30 10:01       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-25  8:36 ` [patch 7/7] ps3: FLASH " Geert.Uytterhoeven
2007-05-29  9:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-29  9:57     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-29 10:51       ` Christoph Hellwig

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