From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
To: Amol Lad <amol@verismonetworks.com>
Cc: linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel Janitors <kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/mmc/mmc.c: Replacing yield() with a better alternative
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:23:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <453BD35F.1030902@drzeus.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160570743.19143.307.camel@amol.verismonetworks.com>
Amol Lad wrote:
> In 2.6, the semantics of calling yield() changed from "sleep for a
> bit" to "I really don't want to run for a while". This matches POSIX
> better, but there's a lot of drivers still using yield() when they mean
> cond_resched(), schedule() or even schedule_timeout().
>
> For this driver cond_resched() seems to be a better
> alternative
>
A version of this patch has been pushed towards Andrew. Thanks for
pointing it out.
Rgds
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-22 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-11 12:45 [PATCH] drivers/mmc/mmc.c: Replacing yield() with a better alternative Amol Lad
2006-10-11 12:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-11 14:16 ` most users of msleep_interruptible are broken Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-11 14:20 ` Pierre Ossman
2006-10-11 14:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-11 15:07 ` Pierre Ossman
2006-10-11 20:30 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-12 5:54 ` [PATCH] drivers/mmc/mmc.c: Replacing yield() with a better alternative Nick Piggin
2006-10-16 6:49 ` Pierre Ossman
2006-10-22 20:23 ` Pierre Ossman [this message]
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