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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:53:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Promise, DMA and RAID5 problems running 2.4.1
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 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.

What do you want fixed?
Send a patch and lets try it....

Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development
ASL Kernel Development
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