From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
"Larry Finger" <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>,
mvtodevnull@gmail.com, "Daniel Walker" <dwalker@mvista.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Ray Lee" <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>,
n <odie@cs.aau.dk>,
SimonHolm=?iso-8859-1?q?Th=F8gerse?=@mail.berlios.de,
matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jonathan@jonmasters.org, kjwinchester@gmail.com,
linux@bohmer.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:48:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071219134805.GC21282@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712191046.54147.mb@bu3sch.de>
* Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 December 2007 09:11:02 Larry Finger wrote:
> > >
> > > or could tsc being marked as unstable have anything to do with the
> > > speed of network transfers?
> >
> > Absolutely not.
>
> Well, if the clocksource of the machine is unstable it _can_ cause all
> kinds of weird things. If you think something is broken in the tsc
> stuff, please switch to using another clocksource.
also, if it gets marked unstable (which is typical on laptops) then the
kernel switches to a more stable, non-TSC clocksource automatically.
(hpet or pit)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-19 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-12 8:00 [PATCH 1/3] ps3: vuart: fix error path locking Daniel Walker
2007-12-12 8:00 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-12 8:00 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-13 2:00 ` Geoff Levand
2007-12-19 1:10 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-19 1:54 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-19 1:54 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-19 3:04 ` Geoff Levand
2007-12-20 19:32 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-20 19:32 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-20 20:06 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-20 20:06 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-20 20:13 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-20 20:13 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-12 8:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] driver base: memory: semaphore to mutex Daniel Walker
2007-12-12 8:00 ` [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem " Daniel Walker
2007-12-13 0:48 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-13 1:17 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-13 13:45 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-14 0:05 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-14 0:43 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-14 0:55 ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-14 10:45 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-14 1:12 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-14 10:49 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-14 11:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-14 11:39 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-14 12:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-14 12:31 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-14 12:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-14 13:08 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-14 16:06 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-14 16:49 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-14 18:01 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-14 18:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-14 18:47 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-14 18:22 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-14 18:45 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-14 19:05 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-14 19:25 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-14 19:38 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-14 19:55 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-14 20:13 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-14 21:39 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-14 12:59 ` Simon Holm Thøgersen
2007-12-14 13:04 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-15 0:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-15 0:58 ` Larry Finger
2007-12-15 1:59 ` mvtodevnull
2007-12-15 2:27 ` Larry Finger
2007-12-15 4:37 ` mvtodevnull
2007-12-15 4:39 ` mvtodevnull
2007-12-15 7:18 ` Larry Finger
2007-12-15 12:38 ` mvtodevnull
2007-12-17 2:17 ` mvtodevnull
2007-12-17 6:52 ` Larry Finger
2007-12-17 7:17 ` mvtodevnull
2007-12-17 9:49 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-17 10:15 ` mvtodevnull
2007-12-17 10:35 ` mvtodevnull
2007-12-17 22:04 ` mvtodevnull
2007-12-17 22:45 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-17 23:12 ` mvtodevnull
2007-12-17 23:18 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-17 23:27 ` mvtodevnull
2007-12-18 1:16 ` Larry Finger
2007-12-18 2:34 ` mvtodevnull
2007-12-19 2:12 ` mvtodevnull
2007-12-19 8:11 ` Larry Finger
[not found] ` <200712191046.54147.mb@bu3sch.de>
2007-12-19 13:48 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-12-15 10:57 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-15 23:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-15 23:27 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-16 2:30 ` Larry Finger
2007-12-16 11:13 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-16 13:56 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-16 14:35 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-16 14:18 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-14 2:09 ` Larry Finger
2007-12-14 10:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-14 14:14 ` John W. Linville
2007-12-14 14:40 ` stefano.brivio
2007-12-14 16:27 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-14 16:45 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-14 16:59 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-14 17:22 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-14 17:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-14 18:38 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-15 1:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-15 21:43 ` John W. Linville
2007-12-15 23:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-16 3:20 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2007-12-16 9:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-16 11:23 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-13 1:20 ` Daniel Walker
2007-12-13 10:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-13 11:11 ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-13 14:23 ` John W. Linville
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