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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:48:32 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: netpoll/netconsole minor tweaks
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* Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote:
> On Mer, 2003-09-17 at 19:24, Chris Wright wrote: 
> >  		/* Give driver a chance to settle */
> > -		jiff = jiffies + 2*HZ;
> > +		jiff = jiffies + 4*HZ;
> >  		while (time_before(jiffies, jiff))
> <pedant>
> should be cpu_relax();
> </pedant>

Hrm, there's many spots that aren't using it.  What's the benefit, less
power consumption?  Is it worth a patch to convert other things over?

thanks,
-chris
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