From: "Daniel Marjamäki" <daniel.marjamaki@comhem.se>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I made a patch and would like feedback/testers (drivers/cdrom/aztcd.c)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:42:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43818880.8080800@comhem.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511211919.11429.kernel@kolivas.org>
Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> Convention in the kernel would be
> aztTimeOut = HZ / 100 ? : 1;
> to be at least one tick (works for HZ even below 100) and is at least 10ms. If
> you wanted 2 ms then use
> aztTimeOut = HZ / 500 ? : 1;
> which would give you at least 2ms
>
Thank you Con for the feedback.
Hmm.. The minimum value should be 2, right?
Otherwise the loop could time out after only a few nanoseconds.. since the loop will then timeout immediately on a clock tick.
Or am I wrong?
Best regards,
Daniel Marjamäki
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-21 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-11-20 20:58 ` I made a patch and would like feedback/testers (drivers/cdrom/aztcd.c) Bodo Eggert
2005-11-20 21:07 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-11-21 8:09 ` Daniel Marjamäki
2005-11-21 8:19 ` Con Kolivas
2005-11-21 8:42 ` Daniel Marjamäki [this message]
2005-11-21 9:11 ` Con Kolivas
2005-11-21 10:47 ` Nick Piggin
2005-11-21 15:08 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-11-21 16:33 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-11-20 15:29 Daniel Marjamäki
2005-11-20 15:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-20 17:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-11-20 21:04 ` Nish Aravamudan
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