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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Return value from schedule()
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:48:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080904174845.GN2772@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080904103049.01f748d9@infradead.org>

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:30:49AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> use schedule_hrtimerout() for this (hopefully will be in 2.6.28);
> see this weeks LWN for an article describing it

OK, so something like:

	struct timespec ts = { 0, 10 * 1000 };

	set_task_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
	schedule_hrtimeout(&ts, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
	if (fatal_signal_pending())
		return -EINTR;

should do the trick.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-04 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-28  3:46 [PATCH 1/2] sky2: EEPROM read/write bug fixes Stephen Hemminger
2008-08-28  3:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] sky2: display product info on boot Stephen Hemminger
2008-08-28 11:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] sky2: EEPROM read/write bug fixes Ben Hutchings
2008-08-28 15:30   ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-08-30 15:03     ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-08-31 20:35       ` Ben Hutchings
2008-08-31 23:24         ` Stephen Hemminger
     [not found]   ` <20080903155316.1a0a5698@extreme>
2008-09-03 22:57     ` [PATCH 2/3] pci: revise VPD access interface Stephen Hemminger
2008-09-03 23:00       ` [PATCH 3/3] sky2: use pci_read_vpd to read info during boot Stephen Hemminger
2008-09-04  7:36         ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-09  4:36           ` Jesse Barnes
2008-09-03 22:57   ` [PATCH 1/3] pci: VPD access timeout increase Stephen Hemminger
2008-09-04 12:52     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-04 14:19       ` Ben Hutchings
2008-09-04 16:10         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-04 16:32         ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-09-04 16:07     ` [PATCH] Return value from schedule() Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-04 16:14       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-04 16:21         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-04 17:30           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-04 17:48             ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-09-04 19:05               ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-09-05  7:40                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-03 14:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] sky2: EEPROM read/write bug fixes Jeff Garzik

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