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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xenpaging: handle GNTST_eagain in kernel drivers

To: Patrick Colp <pjcolp@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xenpaging: handle GNTST_eagain in kernel drivers
From: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:33:26 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 15, Patrick Colp wrote:

> Is there any particular reason for 33 seconds? This number seems a bit
> high to me. Did you run into situations where that amount of time was
> needed? Otherwise I'm happy with everything. Thanks for all the hard
> work!

Its just when the wrap of u8 happens, it keeps the code simple. In my
testing it was never over 100 loop iterations. Most of the time its
between 1 and 10.

Olaf

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