Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.5.13 IDE and preemptible kernel problems | Date | Mon, 6 May 2002 17:01:02 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > immediately that there is a need for single argument > > time_past() or whatever and I turn spinlock debugging on :-). > > Hmm.. Something like > #define timeout_expired(x) time_after(jiffies, (x)) > > migth indeed make sense.
That would be good because in the longer term the elimination of random references to jiffies is pretty essential to low power devices and for things like S/390 scaling.
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