Re: [PATCH] ia64: disable preemption in udelay()

On Iau, 2005-12-15 at 17:04 -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Being out-of-line would reduce accuracy, but this would only be
> significant when the sleep is for a very small number of microseconds.

Even then its a predicted branch to code that will probably be in cache
so really ought to have no material impact.


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