Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 May 2002 14:34:55 +0100 | From | Neil Conway <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.15 IDE 61 |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > 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.
Isn't that what happens? Since when are we spinning on busy? Certainly not in vanilla 2.5.14, unless I'm much mistaken.
Martin - I haven't read your last couple of patches yet but did you really change it this drastically?
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