netdev - Re: [PATCH] Return value from schedule()

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Message-ID: <20080904120522.6d5fdf8d@extreme>
Date:	Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:05:22 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Return value from schedule()

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:48:45 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:30:49AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > use schedule_hrtimerout() for this (hopefully will be in 2.6.28);
> > see this weeks LWN for an article describing it
> 
> OK, so something like:
> 
> 	struct timespec ts = { 0, 10 * 1000 };
> 
> 	set_task_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> 	schedule_hrtimeout(&ts, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
> 	if (fatal_signal_pending())
> 		return -EINTR;
> 
> should do the trick.
> 

Never mind, I changed it to just yield() in revision.
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