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From: "Denis Vlasenko" <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "Roman Zippel" <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 20:31:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158166a0708091231r21903840mc927b6baa47e4598@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1186546512.2862.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On 8/8/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> You keep claiming that hrtimers are so incredibly expensive; but for
> msleep()... which is mostly called during driver init ... I really don't
> buy that it's really expensive. We're not doing this a gazilion times
> per second obviously...

Yes. Optimizing delay or sleep functions for speed is a contradiction
of terms. IIRC we still optimize udelay for speed, not code size...
Read it again folks:

        We optimize udelay for speed

How fast your udelay do you want to be today?

Oh well.
--
vda

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-09 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-03 18:37 [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers Jonathan Corbet
2007-08-03 18:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-03 19:19 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-03 19:46   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-03 19:58     ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-03 23:53       ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-04  3:00         ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-04 19:19           ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-06  0:09             ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-06  0:43               ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-06  1:03                 ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-06  5:39                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-06 10:03                     ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-06 10:20                       ` Manu Abraham
2007-08-06 15:53                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-07 10:40                         ` Manu Abraham
2007-08-07 12:45                         ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-08  4:15                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-09 19:31                             ` Denis Vlasenko [this message]
2007-08-09 20:01                               ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-08-07 19:40 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-07 23:16   ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-07 23:29     ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-08  3:47       ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-08  4:14         ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-09 22:31           ` Roman Zippel
2007-08-08 11:55   ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 11:09     ` Manu Abraham
2007-08-08 11:52       ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-08 11:59         ` Manu Abraham
2007-08-09  7:16 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-09 15:08   ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2007-11-28 10:29 ` Andrew Morton

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