From: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
To: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lp.c, eexpress.c jiffies cleanup
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 21:37:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E161Duo-0000jO-00@kc.cam.armlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> of "Tue, 06 Nov 2001 14:15:21 MST." <20011106141521.R3957@lynx.no>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0111062039440.23693-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de> <20011106141521.R3957@lynx.no>
In message <20011106141521.R3957@lynx.no>, Andreas Dilger writes:
>On Nov 06, 2001 21:04 +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote:
>> In eexpress.c I also turned absolute jiffies number into multiples of HZ,
>> yet the resulting timeout values still do not always seem reasonable to
>> me.
>
>I agree. It seems very ugly. I looked at a few drivers which loop 1 or 2
>jiffies, but to busy-loop for 1/10th of a second, or even 20 seconds
>is terribly bad.
Those timeouts are only a last resort. If the card is working properly the loop will terminate much sooner.
p.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-06 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2001-11-06 20:04 ` [PATCH] lp.c, eexpress.c jiffies cleanup Tim Schmielau
2001-11-06 21:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-06 21:37 ` Philip Blundell [this message]
2001-11-07 0:10 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-06 23:58 ` Tim Hockin
2001-11-21 23:32 [PATCH] Remove needless BKL from release functions David C. Hansen
2001-11-22 10:12 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-11-22 12:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-22 12:30 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-22 13:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-23 9:44 ` Rick Lindsley
2001-11-23 10:10 ` Oliver.Neukum
2001-11-23 10:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-23 11:24 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-11-26 17:46 ` David C. Hansen
2001-11-26 19:41 ` Flavio Stanchina
2001-11-26 19:53 ` David C. Hansen
2001-11-23 12:08 ` Rick Lindsley
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-20 20:07 XFS to main kernel source Gonyou, Austin
2001-09-20 20:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-20 20:16 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-20 20:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-20 20:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-20 21:31 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-21 3:12 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-09-21 3:25 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-21 4:42 ` Nathan Scott
2001-09-21 5:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-21 8:40 ` Narancs v1
2001-09-21 14:19 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-21 14:45 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-20 20:40 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-21 18:03 ` Steve Lord
2001-09-20 20:29 ` Horst von Brand
2001-09-20 20:50 ` Alan Cox
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