On Tuesday 24 Jul 2012 02:26:41 Alessandro Salvatori wrote: > if the server is missing in action, one may want to retry at regular > intervals (via sleep and goto) but until a download starts making > progress, all that polling is a bit overkill, since we'd be just receiving > a few seldom packets.
Thanks for clarifying. iPXE already calls cpu_nap() during sleep_exec(); it should use almost no CPU in the middle of a "sleep" However, in the process of investigating this, I was surprised to discover that iPXE doesn't call cpu_nap() while waiting for user input (e.g. at the shell prompt). This is now fixed: http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/183a70e Michael _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
