Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:27:02 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ASPM: Use msleep instead of cpu_relax during link retraining |
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On Thu 2008-12-25 16:24:27, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 08:01:29PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Mon 2008-12-22 15:11:57, Andrew Patterson wrote: > > > ASPM: Use msleep instead of cpu_relax during link retraining > > > > > > The cpu_relax() function can be a noop on certain architectures > > > like IA-64 when CPU threads are disabled, so use msleep instead > > > during link retraining busy/wait loop. > > > > Author clearly wanted to do a busy loop... why do you think 10msec > > delay here is acceptable? > > 10ms? I see a 1ms sleep.
Yes... IIRC msleep will sleep for up-to 1/HZ on non-highres systems.
> Yes, the subsequent test should be of reg16 instead of jiffies.
Thanks. Pavel
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