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Subject: Re: Promise, DMA and RAID5 problems running 2.4.1
To: VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz (Petr Vandrovec)
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:06:21 +0000 (GMT)
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> Iff CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS is set then yes, doing schedule is better.
> But I do not see any benefit in doing
> 
> unsigned long timeout = jiffies + ((HZ + 19)/20) + 1;
> while (0 < (signed long)(timeout - jiffies));

On that bit we agree.
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