Re: [PATCH][resubmit] x86: enable preemption in delay

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On Thursday 19 June 2008 02:16, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > There are _some_ cases where it can be used, but nobody has been
> > able to come up with compelling uses really. I don't think this
> > case is helped very much either because the logic in there using
> > preempt-disable is fine, isn't it?
> >
> > Except that it should also have a cond_resched in it. Seems like
> > an ideal place to put cond_resched because it is not a fastpath.
>
> Does it really need a cond_resched? preempt_enable when it goes to zero
> will already check to see if it should schedule.

It doesn't really need one, but of course having one would help
non preempt kernels.
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