Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:37:15 -0800 (PST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ia64: disable preemption in udelay() |
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 17:52 -0800, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > > If it's a preemptible sleep period it should just use msleep. > > There are 10 drivers that udelay(10000) or more and a TON that > udelay(1000). Turning those all into 1ms+ non preemptible sections will > be very bad.
What i said was _msleep_, if the driver is sleeping for 10ms and it can handle being preempted, you can switch it over to _msleep_. The original post was regarding making udelay non-preemptible. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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