On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:55:48 -0700 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:26:05 -0700 > Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:08:24 -0700 > > Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > What is a good way to say "i am polling for a while"? > > > > > > can you take a fixed time delay? > > > > or use cond_resched() > cond_resched sounds like the best suggestion. The problem is that > this code needs to deal with hardware that could be fast, or slow > depending on how the device is implemented. one option is poll fast for <X jiffies> and then back off with sleeping delays -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
