[Cbe-oss-dev] ps3vram performance

Geoff Levand geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com
Tue Oct 20 04:51:04 EST 2009


On 10/17/2009 06:20 AM, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> But I still wonder if CPU spinning while waiting for DMA completion can be
> done in a way, which is more friendly than udelay to the other HW thread
> (Cell has something like hyperthreading, right?).

The use of msleep() is so that the scheduler gets called
while waiting.  VRAM IO speed isn't the most important
thing the system needs to do.

-Geoff




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