Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 11:12:10 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/isa fd.c fdreg.h Message-ID: <20020511.111210.41215654.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <20020511082352.E91528@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <joerg@FreeBSD.org> <200205110015.g4B0F8nA006576@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20020511082352.E91528@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes:
: vs. microseconds == 1000000 per second). DELAY() used to be only
: available in the (cold) case in the past, but after reviewing the
: function now, it didn't seem to be unsafe to use in the (!cold) case
: to me now. (The man page for DELAY(9) doesn't mention any restriction
: either.)
DELAY is always safe to use. However, it is highly undesireable to
use it for large values if !cold.
Warner
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