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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:25:53 +0100
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Brad Chisholm <sasblc@unx.sas.com>
Subject:   Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.
Message-ID:  <v04220801b4fcf066fdde@[195.238.1.121]>
In-Reply-To: <200003210325.TAA70819@mass.cdrom.com>
References:  <200003210325.TAA70819@mass.cdrom.com>

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At 7:25 PM -0800 2000/3/20, Mike Smith wrote:

>  Not that I consider this particuarly optimal; busy-waiting for the
>  controller is a terrible waste of the host CPU.  A better solution would
>  probably defer the command and try again a short time later, but let's
>  see if this works first.

	Since this is a device driver, I guess you can't usleep() and 
then check again?  Is there anything else useful you could be doing 
during that period of time -- other than busy waiting?

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