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From: Davide Rossetti <davide.rossetti@roma1.infn.it>
To: "Bouchard, Sebastien" <Sebastien.Bouchard@ca.kontron.com>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Delay in a tasklet.
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:15:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <424A7C58.7040105@roma1.infn.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5009AD9521A8D41198EE00805F85F18F054EA085@sembo111.teknor.com>

Bouchard, Sebastien wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm in the process of writing a linux driver and I have a question in
>regards to tasklet :
>
>Is it ok to have large delay "udelay(1000);" in the tasklet?
>
>If not, what should I do? 
>
>Please send the answer to me personally (I'm not subscribe to the mailling
>list) :
>  
>
I'd be interested in the answer as well. I have a driver which does 
udelay(100), so no 1000 but anyway, and of course I end up having the 
X86_64 kernel happily crying. I'm moving to a little state-machine to 
allow for a multi-pass approach instead of busy-polling..
regards


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-30 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-29 15:20 Delay in a tasklet Bouchard, Sebastien
2005-03-30 10:15 ` Davide Rossetti [this message]
2005-03-30 11:50   ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-30 13:57   ` linux-os
2005-03-31 18:48 ` Mark Gross
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-30 12:01 tvrtko.ursulin

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