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Subject:    Re: [KJ] [PATCH] net/ewrk3: replace schedule_timeout() with
From:       Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc () us ! ibm ! com>
Date:       2004-10-25 16:08:51
Message-ID: 20041025160851.GA2209 () us ! ibm ! com
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On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 01:33:33AM +0100, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:40:26 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > The original was:
> > 
> > schedule_timeout(HZ>>2);
> 
> I just wandered whether that was kicking around and assuming some
> smaller value of HZ.

I don't think it should matter, as the intended delay, on any system,
will be one quarter of a second. Now, whether schedule_timeout() really
achieves this for all arch's is a different question :)

-Nish


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