Re: [PATCH] napi: use non-interruptible sleep in napi_disable

From: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:10:32 -0400

> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > The current napi_disable() uses msleep_interruptible() but doesn't
> > (and can't) exit in case there's a signal, thus ending up doing a
> > hot spin without a cpu_relax. Use uninterruptible sleep instead.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
 ...
> ACK

Applied, thanks everyone.
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