From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill 8139too kernel thread (sorta)
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 23:58:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <436C3BF7.1080906@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051105042008.GA25823@gondor.apana.org.au>
Herbert Xu wrote:
> My only concern is the potential for starvation here should we fail
> to obtain the RTNL. Since any local user can hold the RTNL by issuing
> rtnetlink requests, it is theoretically possible for the rtl8139 work
> to be delayed indefinitely.
Yes, but highly unlikely, for very few users, with the negative effects
negligible.
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-05 4:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-31 13:02 [PATCH] kill 8139too kernel thread (sorta) Jeff Garzik
2005-10-31 20:50 ` Herbert Xu
2005-10-31 21:11 ` Herbert Xu
2005-11-05 3:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-05 4:20 ` Herbert Xu
2005-11-05 4:58 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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