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From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl
To: jussi.laako@kolumbus.fi (Jussi Laako)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Additions to full lowlatency patch
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 22:03:21 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m16PWFF-000OVeC@amadeus.home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C40AF23.18C811A8@kolumbus.fi>

In article <3C40AF23.18C811A8@kolumbus.fi> you wrote:
> --- linux-2.4.17-lowlatency/drivers/net/eepro100.c      Fri Dec 21 19:41:54 2001
> +++ linux-2.4.17-lowlatency-jl/drivers/net/eepro100.c   Mon Dec 31 22:41:42 2001
> @@ -324,7 +324,11 @@
> static inline void wait_for_cmd_done(long cmd_ioaddr)
> {
>        int wait = 1000;
> -       do  udelay(1) ;
> +       do
> +       {
> +                       conditional_schedule();
> +                       udelay(1) ;
> +       }
>        while(inb(cmd_ioaddr) && --wait >= 0);
> #ifndef final_version
>        if (wait < 0)

Did you audit all uses of this function ? It sort of looks like you're doing
"hey there's a udelay lets add a schedule".. ok that's a bit rude but I'm
not totally convinced that this function isn't called with spinlocks helt...

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-12 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-12 21:48 [PATCH] Additions to full lowlatency patch Jussi Laako
2002-01-12 22:03 ` arjan [this message]
2002-01-12 22:38   ` Jussi Laako
2002-01-12 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-12 22:54   ` Jussi Laako
2002-01-13  2:47     ` Jussi Laako
2002-01-12 22:26 ` Stephan von Krawczynski

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