Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.15 IDE 61 | Date | Wed, 15 May 2002 14:10:00 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The problem is that with the busy flag on we are wasting quite > a significant amount of CPU time spinning around it for no good...
Why spin on the busy flag. Instead you just let the person who clears the flag check the pending work and do it.
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