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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sboyd@codeaurora.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com,
	eranian@google.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] timer: Added usleep[_range][_interruptable] timer
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:22:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vbwafwu.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C225EED.5040600@codeaurora.org> (Patrick Pannuto's message of "Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:22:21 -0700")

Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org> writes:

Overall it seems like a good improvement.

> +
> +static inline void usleep(unsigned long usecs)
> +{
> +	usleep_range(usecs, usecs);
> +}
> +
> +static inline unsigned long usleep_interruptible(unsigned long usecs)

Is the interruptible case even needed?  I assume most drivers won't
bother with that and not being interruptible for a few usecs is not a
big issue.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-24 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-23 19:22 [RFC] [PATCH] timer: Added usleep[_range][_interruptable] timer Patrick Pannuto
2010-06-23 20:05 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-23 20:21   ` Patrick Pannuto
2010-06-23 20:56     ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-23 22:04       ` Andreas Mohr
2010-06-26 21:43       ` Pavel Machek
2010-06-28 18:03       ` Patrick Pannuto
2010-06-28 19:39         ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-24 10:22 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-06-24 16:51   ` Patrick Pannuto

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