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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	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 19:57:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FE0FB87.4000105@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031217154919.6ab61960.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> It will still be a busy loop if this task has a signal pending. 
> TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE may be more appropriate...


Agreed.  Same reason you want to use down() instead of 
down_interruptible(), when using a semaphore to wait on some hardware 
condition.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-18  0:58 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
2003-12-18  0:57     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-12-18  7:47     ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-18 15:05       ` mikem

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