O> I'm just catching up on a few things here now that holiday season is over. > In the above loop, I wonder if it might be better to only check status > every NN iterations, where NN > 1 (say, 16), to speed things up a fair amount (?). And hang some controllers probably. > Sure it's rare, but when it happens the entire system is probably stopped > waiting for us to recover, so speed might matter some. Correctness first. If we have to optimise this case we are (as you note) doing something seriously wrong! Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html