Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] drivers/scsi/NCR5380.c: Replacing yield() with a better alternative | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:52:55 +0100 |
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Ar Mer, 2006-10-11 am 18:24 +0530, ysgrifennodd Amol Lad: > For this driver schedule_timeout_schedule() seems to be a better > alternative. > > *Please see if the function should be called with 1 jiffy delay or more > is better*
You want cond_resched() for this driver as its polling the hardware for a change that should occur very soon. (Actually you want to throw the hardware in the bin)
Alan
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