From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Jeff Garzik" <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, zambrano@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [TG3]: Increase 5906 firmware poll time.
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:05:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163549150.4954.25.camel@rh4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <455A4BB8.8060301@garzik.org>
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 18:05 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> ACK, of course, but this brings up something else: what's the status of
> moving chip reset outside of a spinlock?
>
> Currently a reset during operation can trigger the CPU lockup detector
> and other doo-dads, because you can easily spend a second or two with a
> spinlock held (a loooooong time, to hold a spinlock)
>
Yeah, I will put this in my queue. I have done some of that in the PHY
routines and will continue to do more, as those are even worse.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-14 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-14 22:42 [TG3]: Increase 5906 firmware poll time Michael Chan
2006-11-14 23:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-15 0:05 ` Michael Chan [this message]
2006-11-15 0:34 ` David Miller
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