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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:52:55 +0100 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Amol Lad <amol@...ismonetworks.com> Cc: linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, James.Bottomley@...eleye.com, kernel Janitors <kernel-janitors@...ts.osdl.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] drivers/scsi/NCR5380.c: Replacing yield() with a better alternative Ar Mer, 2006-10-11 am 18:24 +0530, ysgrifennodd Amol Lad: > For this driver schedule_timeout_schedule() seems to be a better > alternative. > > *Please see if the function should be called with 1 jiffy delay or more > is better* You want cond_resched() for this driver as its polling the hardware for a change that should occur very soon. (Actually you want to throw the hardware in the bin) Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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