Re: [PATCH] add function spin_event_timeout()

[Timur Tabi]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> A jiffy is a really long time to be spinning, let alone liffies plural.  
> In this use case are you expecting that the loop will iterate a very 
> small number of times before returning, and the timeout case is a very 
> unlikely error condition?

Yes, in version 3 of this patch, I switch to using udelay().  I might
need to post a v4 though.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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