> driver was snappy in that regard. When I replaced our sleeping loop with a > busy-wait same as the original the snappyness returned and moreover, reading > the TOC from the CD went from something close to a minute to approximately a > second. Thought that minute was just because I was dealing with an old junk > 1-speed drive...
It happens. If you want to be fairer you can check need_resched in the loop so that you still share the CPU fairly with other users. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
