From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] introduce macro spin_event_timeout()
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:03:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B8272A.1040306@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B826E3.6020007@freescale.com>
Timur Tabi wrote:
> Scott Wood wrote:
>
> > Or you can say that atomic context is outside the scope of this macro.
>
> No, I don't want to say that. We have wait_event_timeout() for
> larger-scale operations. I'm just looking for something that can
> replace "while (!condition);"
wait_event_timeout() requires a wait queue.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-11 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-10 22:11 [PATCH v5] introduce macro spin_event_timeout() Timur Tabi
2009-03-10 22:33 ` Scott Wood
2009-03-10 22:37 ` Josh Boyer
2009-03-10 22:58 ` Scott Wood
2009-03-11 0:32 ` Josh Boyer
2009-03-10 23:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-03-11 0:22 ` Timur Tabi
2009-03-11 0:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-03-11 17:10 ` Grant Likely
2009-03-11 21:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-03-11 21:54 ` Timur Tabi
2009-03-11 22:49 ` Scott Wood
2009-03-11 5:09 ` Roland Dreier
2009-03-11 16:31 ` Timur Tabi
2009-03-11 16:51 ` Scott Wood
2009-03-11 19:14 ` Timur Tabi
2009-03-11 19:22 ` Scott Wood
2009-03-11 20:45 ` Timur Tabi
2009-03-11 21:00 ` Scott Wood
2009-03-11 21:02 ` Timur Tabi
2009-03-11 21:03 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2009-03-11 0:44 ` Josh Boyer
2009-03-10 23:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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