Re: [PATCH] ia64: disable preemption in udelay()

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, John Hawkes wrote:

> From: "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > There are 10 drivers that udelay(10000) or more and a TON that
> > udelay(1000).  Turning those all into 1ms+ non preemptible sections will
> > be very bad.
> 
> What about 100usec non-preemptible sections?
> John Hawkes

100usec should be ok as a non-preemptible udelay is this 1 specific 
driver?

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