Hi! On 12:15 Mon 14 Nov , Kai Meyer wrote: ... > My > caller function has an atomic_t value that I set equal to the number of > bios I want to submit. Then I pass a pointer to that atomic_t around to > each of the bios which decrement it in the endio function for that bio. > > Then the caller does this: > while(atomic_read(numbios) > 0) > msleep(1); > > I'm finding the msleep(1) is a really really really long time, > relatively. It seems to work ok if I just have an empty loop, but it > also seems to me like I'm re-inventing a wheel here. ... You might want to take a look at wait queues (the kernel equivalent to pthread "condidions"). Basically you instead of calling msleep(), you call wait_event(). In the function which decrements numbios, you check whether it is 0 and if so call wake_up(). -Michi -- programing a layer 3+4 network protocol for mesh networks see http://michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
