Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261725AbTIST44 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:56:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261714AbTIST4z (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:56:55 -0400 Received: from pix-525-pool.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:16530 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261732AbTISTyS (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:54:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:54:12 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Chris Wright Cc: Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/13] use cpu_relax() in busy loop Message-ID: <20030919215412.D22138@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20030918162522.E16499@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net> <20030918162748.F16499@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net> <20030918162930.G16499@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net> <20030918163156.H16499@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net> <1063956884.5394.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20030919124845.A27079@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030919124845.A27079@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net>; from chrisw@osdl.org on Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:48:45PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 570 Lines: 15 On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:48:45PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > * Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com) wrote: > > > > mdelay ? > > Yeah, good point. For these subsecond pauses mdelay() makes more sense. > It'd be nice to get rid of long busy loops in general. yep; first step is making them grep-able by using mdelay ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/