Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Nov 1998 18:05:52 +0100 | From | Matthias Welwarsky <> | Subject | Re: current->timeout = jiffies + ? -> schedule_timeout(?) |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > Is everything that does a 'current->timeout = jiffies + x;' obsolete and > > needing to be redone as 'schedule_timeout(x);'? > > Yes. However, I've done some of it already. Sending me patches is still a > good idea, though. > > The areas that I haven't done are mainly: > - non-PC drivers > - ISDN > - cdrom drivers > - some of the more special serial and parallel port drivers > > Thanks, >
Btw, there's a certain amount of "schedule_timeout(<constant value>)", even in generic drivers/subsystems. I think these should be looked at by the appropriate maintainers and be replaced by HZ-relative values. Not all archs use HZ=100.
Gruss, Matthias
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