Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] lp.c, eexpress.c jiffies cleanup | Date | Tue, 06 Nov 2001 21:37:50 +0000 | From | Philip Blundell <> |
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In message <20011106141521.R3957@lynx.no>, Andreas Dilger writes: >On Nov 06, 2001 21:04 +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: >> In eexpress.c I also turned absolute jiffies number into multiples of HZ, >> yet the resulting timeout values still do not always seem reasonable to >> me. > >I agree. It seems very ugly. I looked at a few drivers which loop 1 or 2 >jiffies, but to busy-loop for 1/10th of a second, or even 20 seconds >is terribly bad.
Those timeouts are only a last resort. If the card is working properly the loop will terminate much sooner.
p.
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