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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mike.miller@hp.com,
	scott.benesh@hp.com
Subject: Re: cciss update for 2.4.24-pre1, 2 of 2
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:49:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031217154919.6ab61960.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031217225007.GN2495@suse.de>

Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > +	for (i=0; i < 1200; i++) {
> > +		scratchpad = readl(c->vaddr + SA5_SCRATCHPAD_OFFSET);
> > +		if (scratchpad == 0xffff0000) {
> > +			ready = 1;
> > +			break;
> > +		}
> > +		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> > +		schedule_timeout(HZ / 10); /* wait 100ms */
> > +	}
> > +	if (!ready) {
> > +		printk(KERN_WARNING "cciss: Board not ready.  Timed out.\n");
> > +		return -1;
> > +	}
> 
> Fine as well, aren't you happy you changed this to schedule_timeout()
> instead of busy looping? :)

It will still be a busy loop if this task has a signal pending. 
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE may be more appropriate...

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-17 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-16 23:57 cciss update for 2.4.24-pre1, 2 of 2 mikem
2003-12-17 22:50 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-17 23:49   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-12-18  0:57     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-18  7:47     ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-18 15:05       ` mikem

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