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From: Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@erdfelt.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Drokin <green@ixcelerator.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hardcoded HZ in hub.c
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:26:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001121142616.L7764@sventech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001121095626.F3431@valinux.com> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0011211912490.22252-100000@imladris.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0011211912490.22252-100000@imladris.demon.co.uk>; from David Woodhouse on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:13:14PM +0000

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> 
> > That that possible? usb_hub_events can block for a long time. That is why
> > the kernel thread was needed. I'm not familiar with schedule_task enough
> > to know if it can be used.
> 
> Ah. How long? At first glance, it didn't look to me as if it would sleep
> for long at all.

Multiple seconds in the worst case.

JE

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-21 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-17  9:54 hardcoded HZ in hub.c Oleg Drokin
2000-11-20 20:17 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2000-11-21 10:13 ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-21 17:56   ` Johannes Erdfelt
2000-11-21 19:13     ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-21 19:26       ` Johannes Erdfelt [this message]
2000-11-22 10:48       ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-22 11:22         ` Andrew Morton
2000-11-22 11:26         ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-22 11:34           ` Andrew Morton
2000-11-22 11:47           ` David Woodhouse

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