linux-kernel - Re: wait_for_completion_timeout() spurious failure under heavy load?

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Message-ID: <adahcbotbvl.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:33:02 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eli Cohen <eli@....mellanox.co.il>,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: wait_for_completion_timeout() spurious failure under heavy load?

 > but like in the commit below. Agreed?

 > +
 > +			/*
 > +			 * If the completion has arrived meanwhile
 > +			 * then return 1 jiffy time left:
 > +			 */
 > +			if (x->done && !timeout) {
 > +				timeout = 1;
 > +				break;
 > +			}
 > +

Sure, that looks nice to me.

 - R.
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