Re: [PATCH 9/11] Panic delay fix

[Alan]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:53:08 -0800
Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > IDE on several platforms has performance critical paths that use
> > ndelay(400) or failing that udelay(1)
> 
> Ok, I buy that.  A 486DX / 33 Mhz processor takes 10 cycles to issue a 
> CALL / RET pair.  This is about 300ns.  Is there an issue with being too 
> early to issue I/O operations or too late?

Too early you lose, too late you just waste clock time.

> But I fail to see how such careful timing can be done at this 
> granularity on such hardware without well tweaked assembly code. 

Thats what is used  most platforms use udelay(1) in fact however
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