Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751599AbZCIXOc (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:14:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751700AbZCIXOX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:14:23 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]:58813 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751458AbZCIXOX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:14:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SMnOzpexnfasgEt+ZpMRTEBZ7UfRyPBCWPgFRInOITkeW++VRLAiN12rwpzniYDrpL SY+7jNIuQK2l6L8uST6dXBoevhQKX4qpHhYn+E6TD6EIOsR+U5SZLmCGd4QVZGrHrcvo BQdYtrmfDU1tbcHRhACvtVnsceZbEU9EvVuEw= Message-ID: <49B5A2CB.9090802@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:14:19 +0100 From: Jiri Slaby User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090223 SUSE/3.0b2-3.1 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Altobelli CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tweak spin logic for hpilo References: <20090309225651.GA13702@ldl.fc.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20090309225651.GA13702@ldl.fc.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 489 Lines: 12 On 9.3.2009 23:56, David Altobelli wrote: > Change hpilo open and close logic to spin for 10usec between checking device, > rather than every usec. Applies to 2.6.29. Hi, the description misses a `why' part. In what is this approach better? -- 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/