Re: schedule_timeout() semantics/usage?

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 23:38:25 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, David Hinds wrote:

> do {
> current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
> timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);
> } while (timeout);
> current->state = TASK_RUNNING;

Yes, that will work fine and it's the right thing to do, except the fact
you don't care about signals in the above fragment and so you should use
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE instead (it will avoid some not necessary
schedule()).

Andrea

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