Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Note: I use msleep_interruptible(1); just like napi_disable(). However
> I'm not too happy that the "hot" loop that results of a pending signal
> here will spin without even a cpu_relax ... what do you guys think would
> be the best way to handle this ?

Well since the loop does not check signals at all, it should
just use msleep.

Granted the process will end up in the D state and contribute
to the load average.  But if this loop executes long enough
for that to be noticed then we've got bigger problems to worry
about.

Cheers,
-- 
Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/
Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to