From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/20][BNX2]: Enhance the heartbeat.
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 03:17:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46383B00.4080605@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178068656.4820.53.camel@dell>
Michael Chan wrote:
> [BNX2]: Enhance the heartbeat.
>
> In addition to the periodic heartbeat, we're adding a heartbeat
> request interrupt when the heartbeat is late. This is useful
> especially in -rt kernels where the timer frequently runs late.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Should we really be adding code for such a special situation to upstream
code?
I lean towards "no", but defer to your and DaveM's judgement here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-02 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-02 1:17 [PATCH 17/20][BNX2]: Enhance the heartbeat Michael Chan
2007-05-02 7:17 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-05-02 7:24 ` David Miller
2007-05-02 7:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-02 7:54 ` David Miller
2007-05-02 8:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-02 17:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-02 8:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
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