Re: [PATCH][RELEASE]: megaraid unified driver version 2.20.0.B1

[Ingo Oeser]

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Hi,

On Saturday 17 April 2004 08:40, Mukker, Atul wrote:
> > Typically, one includes a simple counter to ensure the loop is not 
> > infinite...
> > 
> > 	while (condition && (counter-- > 0))
> > 		cpu_relax()
> > 
> The hard part is arriving at the counter value. Given that this driver might
> run on a 700MHz singe cpu, one of my test servers :-( or a 3.2GHz SMP server
> - the typical counter value is difficult to set. But you are right, we
> should find out the typical time a cpu would take to execute so many
> iterations and base counter value over it.

Then you might use a udelay(1) instead. This should equalize this
effect, no?


Regards

Ingo Oeser

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