Bogus usage of HZ in cfi_cmdset_0001.c
Guennadi Liakhovetski
gl at dsa-ac.de
Mon Jul 16 08:58:57 EDT 2007
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Let's see.
>
> drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c from line 1029:
>
> | } else if (usec >= 1000000/HZ) {
> | /*
> | * Try to save on CPU power when waiting delay
> | * is at least a system timer tick period.
> | * No need to be extremely accurate here.
> | */
> | xip_cpu_idle();
>
> The important clue here is: "at least a system timer tick period".
[snip]
Thanks for explaning, Nicolas.
Guennadi
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