netdev - Re: [PATCH] use cond_resched() to replace udelay() when dump eeprom

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Date:	Wed, 14 May 2014 00:53:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mchan@...adcom.com
Cc:	acho@...e.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpoirier@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use cond_resched() to replace udelay() when dump eeprom

From: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 10:48:30 -0700

> We still need to time these commands.  Using cond_resched(), the timing
> becomes unpredictable.  Perhaps we can reduce the NVRAM_CMD_TIMEOUT
> counter by a factor of 100 and use msleep(1) instead of udelay(10).

That should work.
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