Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

[Alan Cox]

> > In eepro100.c, wait_for_cmd_done() can busywait for one millisecond
> > and is called multiple times under spinlock.
> 
> Did I get that right, as long as spinlocked no sense in conditional_schedule()
> ?

No conditional schedule, no pre-emption. You would need to rewrite that code
to do something like try for 100uS then queue a 1 tick timer to retry
asynchronously. That makes the code vastly more complex for an error case and
for some drivers where irq mask is required during reset waits won't help.

Yet again there are basically 1mS limitations buried in the hardware.