Re: [PATCH v4] introduce macro spin_event_timeout()

[Alan Cox]

> Are you talking about the udelay() inside the loop?  If so, I agree
> that this is bad and have removed it in the PowerPC-specific version:

The behaviour you want there is system specific - 10uS is a minimum
politeness value for x86 PCI bus for example.

> rdtsc instruction.  In this case, we're not adding arbitrary delays
> into the loop, and we're not using jiffies, but we are
> architecture-dependent.

and not useful

A macro of this form really needs to be able to look like

	spin_until_timeout(readb(foo) & 0x80, 30 * HZ) {
		udelay(10);
		/* Maybe do other stuff */
	}

to be more generally useful
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