[alsa-devel] [PATCH] Modify mpc5200 AC97 driver to use V9 of spin_event_timeout()

[Timur Tabi]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Then why did you need to make your routine that calls cpu_relax()?

That gets called only if delay == 0.  udelay(0) is a no-op, so if the
caller specifies no delay, then I need to manually call cpu_relax().

> I don't know what goes on in the guts of HMT_low() and cpu_relax(),
> when you guys decide which one I should use let me know and I can
> adjust the patch.

Grant, I don't see any reason why "udelay(50)" is unacceptable.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale