Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:37:58 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5] fixes for airo.c |
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 01:00:54PM +0200, Javier Achirica wrote: > > Daniel, > > Thank you for your patch. Some comments about it: > > - I'd rather fix whatever is broken in the current code than going back to > spinlocks, as they increase latency and reduce concurrency. In any case, > please check your code.
In general we prefer spinlocks in linux for drivers unless there's a very good reason against it. If you have latency or concurrency problems it seems you have problems with your algorithms or the length of your critical sections.
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