[-mm UPDATE PATCH 13/32] ppc64: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible()

[Andrew Morton]

Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On 16.08.2005 [13:30:01 +0200], Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>  > On Maandag 15 August 2005 20:15, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
>  > > Description: Use schedule_timeout_interruptible() instead of
>  > > set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size.
>  > 
>  > Shouldn't these use msleep_interruptible() instead?
> 
>  Yes, you are right. I had forgotten to get on that after my -KJ patches
>  which affected these files. Does the following patch look ok/better?
>  This should avoid the load average increase issues the ppc64 maintainers
>  (rightly) had with my older -KJ patches.
> 
>  Thanks,
>  Nish
> 
> 
> 
>  Description: Use msleep_interruptible() instead of schedule_timeout() in
>  ppc64-specific code to cleanup/simplify the sleeping logic.

Really I'd prefer not to include this patch at this time.  It's a separate
thing from the simple mechanistic convert-to-schedule_timeout_interruptible
patches.  This patch requires more thought and review.

So hm.  I'll just drop 13/32 and handle this patch as a separate thing.