From: maximilian attems <janitor@sternwelten.at>
To: jt@hpl.hp.com
Cc: kj <kernel-janitors@osdl.org>, netdev@oss.sgi.com, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [Kernel-janitors] Re: [patch 1/8] irda/act200l-sir: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep()
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 00:58:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040901225841.GF7467@stro.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040901214815.GA13071@bougret.hpl.hp.com>
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On Wed, 01 Sep 2004, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:40:03PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > On Wed, 01 Sep 2004, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
..
> >
> > hmm we have still archs were HZ < 100.
> > i find msleep use msecs units a lot more readable than
> > schedule_timeout((HZ + 99) / 100);
> >
> > the schedule_timeout(HZ/100) gets safely converted with msleep.
>
> I don't have complain about converting the (HZ + 99) / 100
> expressions to something saner. My beef is the fact that msleep hide
> the fact that a schedule might happen. This is important in the IrDA
> code.
sorry my woding was confusing:
(HZ + 99) / 100 is correct!
as msleep(10)
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maks
kernel janitor http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-01 21:05 [patch 1/8] irda/act200l-sir: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep() janitor
2004-09-01 21:09 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2004-09-01 21:40 ` [Kernel-janitors] " maximilian attems
2004-09-01 21:48 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2004-09-01 22:03 ` [Kernel-janitors] " Nishanth Aravamudan
2004-09-01 22:58 ` maximilian attems [this message]
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