From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754525AbZCIVGl (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:06:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752667AbZCIVGd (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:06:33 -0400 Received: from az33egw02.freescale.net ([192.88.158.103]:42438 "EHLO az33egw02.freescale.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752239AbZCIVGc (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:06:32 -0400 Message-ID: <49B5813F.5040303@freescale.com> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:51:11 -0500 From: Timur Tabi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add function spin_event_timeout() References: <1236384801-10305-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <49B58076.8020703@goop.org> In-Reply-To: <49B58076.8020703@goop.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > A jiffy is a really long time to be spinning, let alone liffies plural. > In this use case are you expecting that the loop will iterate a very > small number of times before returning, and the timeout case is a very > unlikely error condition? Yes, in version 3 of this patch, I switch to using udelay(). I might need to post a v4 though. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale