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Date:	Fri, 26 Dec 2014 00:17:25 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, namhyung@...nel.org,
	masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftracetest: Replace usleep with sleep 0.000001

On Sat 2014-12-20 17:07:25, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 21:42:13 +0100
> Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed 2014-12-10 15:38:27, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > usleep is a Fedoraism, it's not generally available on Debian based
> > > systems AFAICS.
> > > 
> > > GNU sleep accepts a floating point argument, so use that instead.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> > 
> > Could ftrace user interface be enhanced not to need random delays?
> > 
> 
> Not sure what you are talking about. These "random delays" are not for
> the interface, but instead to force some events to happen and to make
> sure they did.
> 
> As the subject states, this is for "ftracetest" which is the selftests
> for ftrace.
> 
> The usleep is basically a "do something to trigger events", and we
> don't want to wait long in doing it.

Yep, I misunderstood, sorry.

									Pavel

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