On 2013/7/2 11:07, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-01 at 19:26 +0800, Xie XiuQi wrote:
>
>> Here is the kthread main logic. Although it's not a good idea, but it does
>> exist:
>
> Why not fix this instead?
>
>> while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
>> /* call schedule every 1 sec */
>> if (HZ <= jiffies - last) {
>> last = jiffies;
>> schedule();
>> }
>
> Hanging out in the kernel for ages is not cool. That doesn't mean
> something else might not pop up that forces the issue, but to date it
> has not, and sacrificing precious fastpath cycles is not attractive.
>
That is to say, the driver's code needs improvement.
Thank you Mike.
> -Mike
>
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