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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: "Eibach, Dirk" <Eibach@gdsys.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: msleep() an load average
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 15:47:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC158E5.50908@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48D3D52125C49B43AE880038E2E5314BB5BE9D@SRV101.gdsys.de>

Eibach, Dirk wrote:
> while(1) msleep_interruptible(1000);
> 
> Is this code really any better?

You should handle signals, probably by blocking any that you're not
interested in, and exiting on any fatal one.

Anyway, polling is bad; this code forces the CPU to wake up once
per second.  What is your thread _actually_ waiting for?
(I guess it has more code than what you wrote?)


Regards,
Clemens

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-04 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-04 12:11 Eibach, Dirk
2011-05-04 13:37 ` Jiri Slaby
2011-05-04 13:54   ` Eibach, Dirk
2011-05-04 14:30     ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-05-04 14:47       ` Eibach, Dirk
2011-05-04 13:47 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2011-05-04 14:04   ` Eibach, Dirk

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