Re: Promise, DMA and RAID5 problems running 2.4.1

Alan Cox
2001-02-07T20:06:33Z

> Iff CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS is set then yes, doing schedule is better.
> But I do not see any benefit in doing
>
> unsigned long timeout = jiffies + ((HZ + 19)/20) + 1;
> while (0 < (signed long)(timeout - jiffies));

On that bit we agree.