linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add function spin_event

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Message-ID: <49B5813F.5040303@freescale.com>
Date:	Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:51:11 -0500
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add function spin_event_timeout()

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> A jiffy is a really long time to be spinning, let alone liffies plural.  
> In this use case are you expecting that the loop will iterate a very 
> small number of times before returning, and the timeout case is a very 
> unlikely error condition?

Yes, in version 3 of this patch, I switch to using udelay().  I might
need to post a v4 though.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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