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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: netpoll/netconsole minor tweaks
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:48:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030918094832.A16499@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1063888205.15962.20.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:30:06PM +0100

* Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote:
> On Mer, 2003-09-17 at 19:24, Chris Wright wrote: 
> >  		/* Give driver a chance to settle */
> > -		jiff = jiffies + 2*HZ;
> > +		jiff = jiffies + 4*HZ;
> >  		while (time_before(jiffies, jiff))
> <pedant>
> should be cpu_relax();
> </pedant>

Hrm, there's many spots that aren't using it.  What's the benefit, less
power consumption?  Is it worth a patch to convert other things over?

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-18 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-17 18:24 Chris Wright
2003-09-17 20:51 ` Matt Mackall
2003-09-18  5:17   ` Chris Wright
2003-09-18 12:30 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-18 16:48   ` Chris Wright [this message]
2003-09-18 17:13     ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-09-18 17:50       ` Chris Wright
2003-09-18 21:12     ` Alan Cox
2003-09-18 23:10       ` Jesper Juhl
2003-09-19  7:40         ` Arjan van de Ven

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