On 05/23/2007 09:34 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
driver was snappy in that regard. When I replaced our sleeping loop with a
busy-wait same as the original the snappyness returned and moreover, reading
the TOC from the CD went from something close to a minute to approximately a
second. Thought that minute was just because I was dealing with an old junk
1-speed drive...
It happens. If you want to be fairer you can check need_resched in the
loop so that you still share the CPU fairly with other users.
Thanks for the tip -- I'll do this.
Rene.
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