Re: [PATCH 1/5] tg3: use usleep_range not msleep for small sleeps
From: Javier Martinez Canillas <hidden>
Date: 2011-03-03 12:14:50
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From: Javier Martinez Canillas <hidden>
Date: 2011-03-03 12:14:50
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Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <redacted>Why?
As I understand msleep() will stop for a minimum of two jiffies and that resolution is too low in systems with small HZ values (big jiffies). Using msleep() (with small values) in this systems will sleep for more time than the caller expects. I used usleep_range() because it is a finer precision implementations of msleep. Sorry if I'm wrong or the sleep precision is not a concern in this driver and the change doesn't add any value. Thanks a lot. -- ----------------------------------------- Javier Martínez Canillas (+34) 682 39 81 69 PhD Student in High Performance Computing Computer Architecture and Operating System Department (CAOS) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain