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SubjectRe: cciss update for 2.4.24-pre1, 2 of 2
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > + for (i=0; i < 1200; i++) {
> > + scratchpad = readl(c->vaddr + SA5_SCRATCHPAD_OFFSET);
> > + if (scratchpad == 0xffff0000) {
> > + ready = 1;
> > + break;
> > + }
> > + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> > + schedule_timeout(HZ / 10); /* wait 100ms */
> > + }
> > + if (!ready) {
> > + printk(KERN_WARNING "cciss: Board not ready. Timed out.\n");
> > + return -1;
> > + }
>
> Fine as well, aren't you happy you changed this to schedule_timeout()
> instead of busy looping? :)

It will still be a busy loop if this task has a signal pending.
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE may be more appropriate...
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