From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267709AbUG3PYr (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:24:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267710AbUG3PYr (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:24:47 -0400 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([62.73.5.179]:40461 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267709AbUG3PYj (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:24:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:24:33 +0200 From: Olivier Galibert To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API Message-ID: <20040730152433.GA47129@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <200407280903.37860.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> <25870000.1091042619@flay> <20040728133337.06eb0fca.akpm@osdl.org> <1091044742.31698.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1091055311.31923.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040728172204.2ecc5cdd.akpm@osdl.org> <1091109427.865.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1091109427.865.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:57:09PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2004-07-29 at 01:22, Andrew Morton wrote: > > btw, if we simply insert a five-second-pause, what problems does that > > leave? Network Rx, which is OK. Disk writes will have completed (?). > > What remains? > > Network RX is the obvious one since we've no idea where the DMA is > going in memory. Also audio and video capture on cyclic buffers can theorically go on forever sending irqs from time to time while they're at it. OG.