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From: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@computer.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Krishna Gudipati <kgudipat@Brocade.com>,
	"'davem@davemloft.net'" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"'netdev@vger.kernel.org'" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Adapter Linux Open SRC Team
	<adapter_linux_open_src_team@Brocade.com>,
	Rasesh Mody <rmody@Brocade.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bna: Added flash sub-module and ethtool eeprom entry points.
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:02:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF86253.3010108@computer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324721314.3860.11.camel@deadeye>

On 12/24/2011 11:08 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I asked how long a single call would take, because the RTNL lock will be
> held for this time.  Presumably it doesn't take very long to write a 4K
> chunk, so this shouldn't be a problem.
>

461K is around 115 4K blocks. If these take around 3 minutes to flash 
then that's about 1.5s per 4K block.

Is it OK to hold the RTNL lock for that length of time?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-26 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-22 23:29 [PATCH 1/2] bna: Added flash sub-module and ethtool eeprom entry points kgudipat
2011-12-23  9:44 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-12-23 15:09   ` Krishna Gudipati
2011-12-24 10:08     ` Ben Hutchings
2011-12-26 12:02       ` Jan Ceuleers [this message]
2011-12-26 15:10         ` David Miller
2011-12-26 15:46           ` Jan Ceuleers

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