Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

On 8/8/07, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
> You keep claiming that hrtimers are so incredibly expensive; but for
> msleep()... which is mostly called during driver init ... I really don't
> buy that it's really expensive. We're not doing this a gazilion times
> per second obviously...

Yes. Optimizing delay or sleep functions for speed is a contradiction
of terms. IIRC we still optimize udelay for speed, not code size...
Read it again folks:

        We optimize udelay for speed

How fast your udelay do you want to be today?

Oh well.
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