On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 19:57 +0200, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > Rune Petersen wrote: > > >> (e.g. while (ret && (errno == EINTR || errno == EBUSY));) > >> And by looking at it, does it make sense that the timeout value in the > >> kernel depends on the kernel-of-the-day HZ value, rather than some > >> hardware-dependant (probably fixed) value? > > > > Isn't the timeout value dependent on HZ? > > 3*HZ is always 3 seconds no matter what HZ is (provided its the same > > value used to compile the kernel). > Ah right. I think I misinterpreted something. That said, 3 seconds > sounds like a rather long time, why would there still be timeouts?
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