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?
next prev parent 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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